Following Public Justice’s threatened Title IX lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, Fort Valley State University reinstated its women’s volleyball team and made programmatic changes to ensure male and female athletes were treated equally. FVSU is a small historically black university located in the central Georgia town…
At issue is whether a state freedom of information law can discriminate between state citizens and non-citizens by granting a right of access to public documents only to citizens of that state. This case challenging the Virginia FOIA citizens-only provision was brought by Mark McBurney…
Public Justice is assisting Hudson Sloop Clearwater in its opposition to the 20-year relicensing of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant, arguing that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission erroneously concluded that minority and low-income populations would not be disproportionately affected in the event of an…
Public Justice is counsel for Pilgrim Watch, a citizens group that opposes Entergy Corp.’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Mass., in this administrative proceeding about securing the public’s right to a hearing on the adequacy of safety upgrades to nuclear power plants, which was…
This civil rights case was brought by five current and former students of Pine Bush Central School District in Pine Bush, N.Y. All five students are Jewish and suffered anti-Semitic discrimination, harassment and bullying by other students for years, but unable to get school officials…
This is a wrongful death and survival action against the State of California for causing the penile amputation and death of former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prisoner Francisco Castaneda. The lawsuit alleges that the State violated California Government Code § 845.6 by failing…
Public Justice is co-counsel for Prathees Murugesapillai, a Sri Lankan native who suffered severe brain damage as a result of grossly inadequate medical care for meningitis while in immigration detention and at the hospital where he was provided treatment. Murugesapillai now has permanent cognitive deficits…
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…
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