Public Justice is co‐counsel in this Third Circuit appeal, which raises issues related to qualified immunity and on punitive damages in the civil rights context. A repossession company tried to take Angela Hyman’s car from her driveway while her wife was sitting in it. It…
This California Supreme Court appeal involves home owners who were victimized by a mortgage lender’s mishandling of a mortgage modification application that resulted the sudden loss of their home to an unexpected bank foreclosure. The decision on appeal held that a mortgage lender and servicer…
Public Justice is co-counsel in an 11th Circuit appeal of a decision denying certification of a consumer class action on “ascertainability” grounds. The proposed class action concerns hundreds of thousands of consumers who own small refrigerators used in recreational vehicles. According to the plaintiffs, the…
Public Justice is defending this Ninth Circuit appeal of a headline-generating $80 million verdict against chemical giant Monsanto on behalf of a California man who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after decades of exposure to Monsanto’s best-selling weedkiller Roundup. Hardeman sued Monsanto in 2016, arguing that his cancer was…
Public Justice has joined as co-counsel in the Ninth Circuit appeal of a decision dismissing, on federal preemption grounds, a putative consumer class action involving allegedly falsely labeled dietary supplements. The supplement in question, “TruNature Ginkgo Biloba,” is labeled and advertised as “support[ing] alertness &…
Public Justice has filed an amicus curiae in the Washington State Supreme Court in support of the plaintiffs, putative King County jurors who seek to end the disproportionate exclusion of low-income citizens and citizens of color from King County juries. Like many jurisdictions around the…
This case is a class action on behalf of, possibly, millions of parents at more than 30,000 schools. alleging that Heartland Payment Systems—a private company that contracts with school districts to allow parents to pay for their children’s school lunches and other school fees online—defrauded…
Public Justice and Nichols Kaster represent students of color and their families in a civil rights lawsuit against Duluth Public Schools Academy d/b/a Duluth Edison Charter Schools that seeks to hold the public charter school system accountable for subjecting black and biracial students to a…
Adelante Development Center, based in New Mexico, portrays itself as a corporate Good Samaritan, employing people with disabilities who would otherwise not be able to find jobs while providing a wide range of services to its private and governmental customers. For example, its Mailing and…
This is a civil rights suit on behalf of Jane Doe, a biracial female who, at age 16, was forced to engage in a sexual act at school by a high school male student. When Jane Doe reported the incident to school officials, they did…
