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Created 05/13/2025
Last update 05/13/2025
What’s at Stake Corporations should not be allowed to use fine print in contracts to immunize themselves from lawsuits that have nothing to do with the contract, and they definitely shouldn’t be allowed to use a contract they weren’t a part of to do it...
Created 05/12/2025
Last update 05/12/2025
What’s at Stake Corporations should not be allowed to use a contract about one thing to get out of lawsuits about a totally different thing, especially if the contract is expired. Summary In May 2020, Kristi VonDeylen hired Aptive to provide quarterly pest control services...
Created 05/12/2025
Last update 05/12/2025
What’s at stake In its attempt to shroud its actions in secrecy, the Trump administration has invoked state-secrecy or national-security concerns in many of its ongoing lawsuits. Public Justice is representing Fix the Court as a proposed intervenor in Abrego-Garcia v. Noem to demand that...
Created 05/05/2025
Last update 05/05/2025
What’s at stake: Whether the Department of Education can protect students’ civil rights. Summary: Public Justice is suing to stop the Trump Administration’s efforts to gut the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Just weeks after President Trump assumed office, the Department of Education’s...
Created 04/28/2025
Last update 04/28/2025
What’s at Stake Corporations should not be allowed to use contracts about one thing to prevent lawsuits about a totally different thing, nor should they be allowed to use contracts they were never part of in the first place to avoid consequences for breaking the...
Created 04/21/2025
Last update 04/21/2025
What’s at Stake The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) says that certain classes of workers (such as seamen or transportation workers) cannot be compelled into arbitrating disputes with employers and have their right to sue an employer in court taken away. This case is about preventing...
Created 03/26/2025
Last update 03/26/2025
What’s at stake: Protections for pregnant and postpartum students Summary: In 2024, the U.S. Department of Education published new Title IX regulations. The regulations cover a range of topics, including the rights of LGBTQ+ students, sexual harassment victims, and pregnant and postpartum students. Protections for...
Created 03/26/2025
Last update 03/26/2025
What’s at stake: Whether people who are incarcerated can bring lawsuits without fear of retaliation. If sheriffs are allowed to charge pay-to-stay fees as retaliation for filing a lawsuit, sheriffs may be able to persuade others from bringing those claims. Summary: When Michael Wappler brought...
Created 03/20/2025
Last update 03/20/2025
What’s at Stake Employers are using artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tools, such as software that uses AI to analyze recorded video interviews, that disproportionately reject some applicants based on their disability and race. Summary D.K. is Indigenous and is a Deaf woman who speaks with...
Created 03/17/2025
Last update 03/18/2025
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Typically, a person needs to have been injured by the actions of another to have standing to bring a lawsuit. But in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has...
Created 03/17/2025
Last update 03/17/2025
What’s at Stake Corporations that are in the middle of employment lawsuits should not be able get out of litigation by imposing new fine print terms onto the employees that take away their right to sue the employer. Summary In 2022, Bo Avery and his...
Created 03/17/2025
Last update 03/18/2025
What’s at Stake Preserving municipal liability for systemic prosecutorial misconduct under Section 1983 and Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), in the Ninth Circuit. Summary Roger Wayne Parker languished in jail for nearly four years for a murder the Riverside County...