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Deborah Mathis

Communications Director

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Deborah Mathis came to the Public Justice Foundation in January 2007 as Communications Director. She was previously vice president of media and communications consultant for an Africa trade consulting firm and had provided strategic communications services to the Children’s Defense Fund, a Turkish media holding company, and the ACLU of Maryland.

For three decades, Deborah was a practicing journalist, having served as White House Correspondent for Gannett News Service, a nationally syndicated columnist and a regular contributor to various political talk shows. She held a Shorenstein Fellowship at Harvard University and was an assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University.

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Keith Dillon

When Keith Dillon filed a lawsuit against a prison warden and six guards in Louisiana in connection with a severe, debilitating beating he suffered in 2005, the district court threw the case out. The court said Dillon had failed to, first, try an administrative remedy. But, no such thing had been available to him and, when Public Justice took that argument to a federal appeals court, the higher court agreed.

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Inderjit Singh

Inderjit Singh was denied a job as a shuttle bus driver by Air Serv Corporation because he wears a turban and beard, as required by his Sikh religion.

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