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What’s at stake: Whether a key federal employment law protects students workers from discrimination Meng Huang, a former PhD student at the Ohio State University, filed a lawsuit alleging a shocking pattern of abuse: Her advisor had sexually harassed her for years, starting the first...

What’s at stake: What protections federal and Michigan civil rights law provides student victims of racial harassment The Malick family lived in Sanilac County, Michigan, which is overwhelmingly white. Their daughter, “C.M.,” is Black. While a student at Croswell Lexington School District, C.M. was subject...

This case involves issues around digital contract formation and electronic signatures, which can be used by companies to bind their customers and employees to terms they might never see or know about. This is especially critical when those terms take away important rights, like the...

Charles Adler, his son Grant, and Charles’s limited liability company, C. M. Adler, LLC, sued Gruma Corporation—one of the largest tortilla producers in the world—to challenge their retaliatory termination and to recover unpaid wages and other payments they were owed under state and federal labor...

In 2020, Samuel Voss purchased property in Cincinnati, Ohio. The seller used the proceeds from the sale to satisfy his mortgage with Rocket Mortgage (formerly Quicken Loans, LLC), but Rocket Mortgage did not report satisfaction of the mortgage with the county recorder’s office until after the...

All over the country, there are statutes authorizing local governments to impose fees on individuals for the supposed costs of their incarceration. Generally, these fees are referred to as ‘pay-to-stay’ because they require individuals to pay for time spent detained against their will. These laws...

Public Justice co-represents Snake River Waterkeeper (SRW) in a lawsuit challenging decades of pollution into the Snake River at an Idaho cattle feedlot. Simplot’s Grand View feedlot is one of the largest Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) in the country. On a typical day, the...

Public Justice’s Dan Snyder was lead counsel in litigation against the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (“FDEP”) concerning the troubled Piney Point facility, located outside of Tampa Bay, FL. The department agreed to a draft Clean Water Act permit that will require more robust oversight...

On June 26, 2024, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2022 ruling from the District Court of Oregon, preventing Scott Timber Co. from clearcutting old-growth forest within Oregon’s Elliott State Forest. The court found that logging the 355-acre Benson Ridge parcel by Scott...

The Students’ Civil Rights Project represents a Texas student who endured over a year of sex-based verbal abuse that drove her to the brink of suicide. The case seeks to make clear that schools cannot wait until harassment drives a student out of school before...

When Public Justice’s work results in unsealed records, other attorneys have the resources they need to bring successful cases. We are dedicated to making sure that our courts are not used to hide evidence of government misconduct or corporate harm. On Tuesday June 11, Public...

Public Justice filed an amicus brief to defend a California law that gives thousands of sexual abuse survivors access to justice by lifting the harsh deadlines that used to bar their claims. Plaintiff Jane Doe was sexually abused by her school guidance counselor at Richmond...