Case Database

Bonta v. Chino Valley Unified School District

Dated: 11/13/2023

Updated: 11/22/2023

California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta filed this case to challenge a new policy that Chino Valley Unified School District adopted in July 2023. The policy requires schools to “out” transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students to their parents, even when those students reasonably fear their...

Team Health

Dated: 11/02/2023

Updated: 11/13/2023

Public Justice recently represented economist Loren Adler in a petition to unseal court records. The records were part of a qui tam (“private citizen”) False Claims Act case. That case, brought by former employees of private equity-backed Team Health, accused the company of defrauding Medicare and several state Medicaid programs...

Doe v. Horne

Dated: 10/26/2023

Updated: 11/13/2023

Megan Roe and Jane Doe are 11- and 15-year-old girls who want to try out for their schools’ girls’ volleyball, soccer, and cross-country teams. But a new Arizona law would prevent them from doing so because they are transgender. They challenged the law in court,...

Doe v. Alpena Public School District

Dated: 09/26/2023

Updated: 09/26/2023

Public Justice, the ACLU of Michigan, and A Better Balance filed an amicus brief in support of a student survivor of sexual harassment in Doe v. Alpena Public School District. This Michigan Supreme Court case concerns the correct legal standards for assessing sexual harassment claims...

Buettner-Hartsoe v. Baltimore Lutheran High School Association

Dated: 09/25/2023

Updated: 09/27/2023

Schools that accept special tax benefits should not be allowed to discriminate against their students. Public Justice filed an amicus brief asking the Fourth Circuit to affirm that federal civil rights laws like Title IX apply to schools that receive § 501(c)(3) tax breaks. Five...

Whitson v. Hanna

Dated: 08/01/2023

Updated: 08/21/2023

Public Justice is lead appellate counsel in Whitson v. Hanna, a Tenth Circuit appeal, which seeks to resolve a circuit split on whether the county should be liable under Monell when a “final policymaker”, like an elected sheriff, commits a criminal or tortious act, like...

Hernandez v. County of Monterey

Dated: 07/25/2023

Updated: 11/21/2023

For decades, the Monterey County Jail in Monterey, California has abused the civil rights of the people it cages. The suicide rate at the jail is over three times the average for California jails, and the death rate at the jail is over two times the national average. In this calendar...

Health and Hospital Corp. v. Talevski

Dated: 06/12/2023

Updated: 06/12/2023

Public Justice filed an amicus brief on behalf of Statutory Interpretation Scholars in Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski, a case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court that raises the question of whether § 1983 can be used to enforce Congress’s Spending...

In Re Tehum Care Services, Inc. (f/k/a Corizon Health Services)

Dated: 05/23/2023

Updated: 05/23/2023

Corizon Health Services was one of the nation’s largest providers of correctional health care services in the United States. At one point, Corizon delivered health care to over 300,000 people incarcerated in state prisons and county jails across the country. But instead of providing good or even adequate care, Corizon...

Neese v. Becerra

Dated: 05/01/2023

Updated: 05/01/2023

In 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance about discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Two Texas-based doctors filed a lawsuit challenging that guidance, arguing that healthcare providers can lawfully discriminate against LGBTQ patients, so long as they equally mistreat both “biological men” and...

B.P.J. v. West Virginia

Dated: 04/27/2023

Updated: 04/27/2023

Becky is a 12-year-old girl who wants to run for her middle school’s cross-country and track teams. But a new West Virginia law would ban her from doing so because she is transgender. Becky challenged the law in court, and Public Justice has joined an amicus brief to support her...

Moss v. The Pennsylvania State University

Dated: 04/27/2023

Updated: 08/29/2023

Zara Moss was a four-time All-American athlete on Penn State’s Division I fencing team, and a former Olympic prospect But she was forced to give up the sport she loved. Why? Because for years, Penn State ignored gender-based harassment and abuse by its head fencing coach, Wieslaw Glon. Zara sued...