Case Database

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: 04/27/2023

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...

Nuncio v. Webb County

Dated: 04/27/2023

Updated: 05/10/2023

In this lawsuit against Webb County, Texas and jailers at Webb County Jail, we represented Nelda Nuncio, the mother of Luis Alberto “Albert” Barrientos, a 22-year-old who died of a treatable infection while in pre-trial detention at Webb County Jail after his medical needs were...

Cynthia Kobel and Shalanda Houston v. JPay LLC

Dated: 04/25/2023

Updated: 04/25/2023

Family members or friends of people detained in jail or prison often need to send money to prisoners to pay for their basic needs such as toothpaste, toilet paper, and clothes. Historically, this would cost family members and friends nothing more than the cost of...

Shelby v. Huntsville City Board of Education

Dated: 03/28/2023

Updated: 03/29/2023

This federal civil rights case involves the tragic death of Nigel Shelby, a Black, openly gay freshman at Alabama’s Huntsville High School who died by suicide at age 15 after experiencing unchecked LGBTQ+ harassment and race discrimination at school. Nigel never felt safe at Huntsville...

Doe v. University of Kentucky

Dated: 03/14/2023

Updated: 03/14/2023

Public Justice filed two amicus briefs in support of the Appellant in Doe v. University of Kentucky, a rape case involving the scope of Title IX’s prohibitions on harassment and retaliation. In 2014, plaintiff Jane Doe was enrolled in a program at a community college that partners with the University of...

Johnson v. Everyrealm / Yost v. Everyrealm

Dated: 03/08/2023

Updated: 03/08/2023

In a set of two companion cases against the “virtual real estate” company Everyrealm, Inc. in the Southern District of New York, former employees Teyo Johnson and Katherine Yost brought discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. Notably, each plaintiff brought sexual harassment claims, in addition to...

Czerwienski v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

Dated: 02/28/2023

Updated: 04/04/2023

This case challenges Harvard University’s decade-long failure to protect students from sexual harassment and career-ending retaliation by Professor John Comaroff, one of the most world’s most renowned and powerful scholars in the field of anthropology. The complaint alleges that Harvard hired Professor Comaroff despite warnings that he sexually harassed students...

Orozco v. Garland

Dated: 02/17/2023

Updated: 03/02/2023

This is a D.C. Circuit appeal about the availability of a private right of action to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which mandates that federal agencies’ websites and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities. Jahinnslerth Orozco has worked as...

Urquidi v. City of Los Angeles

Dated: 02/14/2023

Updated: 05/17/2023

This is a class action lawsuit against the County and City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD), the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and the Chief of the LAPD, challenging the defendants’ policy of jailing arrested...