Amici brief to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that an offer of complete relief to the named plaintiff of a putative class before the class can be certified should not moot a class action brought under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure….
This case involves an antitrust action alleging that Comcast’s acquisitions and “swap agreements” with competing cable providers were anti-competitive and led to monopolization by Comcast of the Philadelphia market. Comcast was selling off cable systems in other areas, and purchasing more in the Philadelphia market,…
Public Justice’s amicus brief in Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds supports investors who were defrauded by pharmaceutical giant Amgen, a leading manufacturer of drugs for treatment of anemia frequently prescribed to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The case involves a challenge to…
The defendants/appellants in this case — Global Client Solutions and Rocky Mountain Bank & Trust — have appealed a district court order from February 2012 denying their motion to compel arbitration. The appeal involves the enforceability of an arbitration clause that the defendants imposed on…
One of a number of Public Justice’s class actions representing North Carolina consumers who were charged illegally high interests rates by payday lenders. These lenders used mandatory arbitration clauses and class action bans to immunize themselves from lawsuits. In January 2012, a North Carolina trial…
Public Justice is co-counsel with the Environmental Integrity Project for Little Blue Regional Action Group, a citizens group in Pennsylvania that is contesting the coal ash disposal practices of FirstEnergy, the owner of the nation’s largest coal ash disposal site, Little Blue Run. The coal…
This case is part of Public Justice’s campaign against employer-based health plans’ efforts to recover medical expenses from injury victims who have recovered damages for their injuries from a third-party tortfeasor. In U.S. Airways v. McCutchen, Public Justice defended a Pennsylvania man who had been…
A female lacrosse coach who was fired after raising questions about whether the athletic program at a south Florida high school was being fair to female athletes was reinstated, and her team got to play in the school’s best athletic facility, under the terms of…
In early 2011, the CDPHE issued a Radioactive Materials License to Energy Fuels Resources Corporation for construction of the $150 million Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill in the Paradox Valley of Montrose County, Colo., as a result of Colorado being an “Agreement State” under the federal…
Public Justice, the Sierra Club, and local environmental groups oppose the expansion of coal ash disposal sites in Monongalia County, W.Va., and have filed a citizen suit demanding responsible cleanup of pollution. According to a report commissioned by Public Justice, coal combusion waste (CCW) and…
