Port Huron, St. Clair County, MI: Right 2 Hug Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. The policy change has devastating consequences for the people who are incarcerated, for their children and loved ones, and for public safety generally. Why has this happened? The answer highlights…
Flint, Genesee County, MI: Right 2 Hug Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. The policy change has devastating consequences for the people who are incarcerated, for their children and loved ones, and for public safety generally. Why has this happened? The answer highlights a profound…
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 who provided educational instruction at the School District. After a…
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 year at a high school in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School…
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 Adrianna Wadsworth. At the time, Adrianna was a vulnerable teenager…
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 to pending regulatory changes. The regulatory changes were designed to…
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 it violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The federal…
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 changed when the school advanced J.W., who was by then…
When local businesses and a neighborhood association sued Tucson, AZ, to try to force the city to sweep unhoused people from their neighborhood, the Public Justice Debtors’ Prison Project, alongside the National Homelessness Law Center and local counsel at the Law Office of Paul Gattone, sought to intervene on behalf of community organizations that serve…