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Schiebel v. Schoharie Central School District
Last update 03/14/2024
This appeal arose out of a male instructor’s Title IX lawsuit alleging that Schoharie Central School District, in New York, discriminated against him based on his sex when it disciplined him for allegedly touching a student’s breasts and buttocks. Keith Schiebel was an independent contractor...
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District v. Roe
Last update 03/14/2024
In this Title IX sexual harassment case, Public Justice successfully opposed a cert petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the matter. During middle school in Texas, “Jane Roe” started dating a classmate, “John Doe,” who physically and emotionally abused her. During their freshman...
Wadsworth v. MSAD 40/RSU 40
Last update 03/14/2024
Public Justice filed an amicus brief in this First Circuit appeal in support of the Plaintiff, Adrianna Wadsworth, who was sexually harassed as a high school student by her principal. Beginning in 2016, Medomak Valley High School principal Andrew Cavanaugh groomed and sexually harassed student...
Macquarie Infrastructure Corp v. Moab Partners
Last update 02/15/2024
This case is about whether injured investors can hold a publicly traded company accountable for securities fraud when it deliberately violates its duty to disclose material information in securities filings. Macquarie Infrastructure Corp (MIC) allegedly failed to disclose the long-term financial consequences it faced due...
USDA Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz
Last update 02/12/2024
Our court system was designed to help individuals, businesses, and governments resolve their disputes. Part of access to justice means being able to use the courts to sue those who wrong you. This case is about whether a consumer can sue the federal government when...
Williamson v. Heritage Preschools LLC and Heritage Preschools of Homewood LLC
Last update 03/14/2024
In 2021, Lee Williamson and Aletta Williamson enrolled J.W., their Black and biracial toddler, in Heritage Preschools—an overwhelmingly white, private Christian preschool system in Alabama. For his first two years, J.W. had a positive experience at Heritage and rarely got into trouble. But things quickly...
Bradford v. City of Tucson
Last update 03/14/2024
In this case, a group of property owners filed suit against the city of Tucson, Arizona. They are seeking to label the unhoused people in Navajo Wash Park a public nuisance, and to compel the city to conduct sweeps and other law enforcement actions to...
Hernández v. School District of Pennsylvania
Last update 03/14/2024
“John Doe,” an asylum-seeker attending elementary school within the School District of Philadelphia, was harassed by classmates based on his perceived sexual orientation and national origin. His mother, Leslie Hernández, encouraged John to ask his principal for help. Rather than provide support to stop the...
Sloat v. Active Day
Last update 11/30/2023
Active Day is a Medicaid provider that operates the country’s largest network of daytime care services for adults with developmental disabilities. The company provides these services in accordance with the Intellectual Disability/Related Disabilities Medicaid Waiver (ID/RD)—a program that permits states to offer an array of...
Bonta v. Chino Valley Unified School District
Last update 03/14/2024
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
Last update 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
Last update 03/14/2024
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,...
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