This case presents the issue of whether the named plaintiff in a class action can prevent a state court class action from being removed to federal court by stipulating that the case is worth less than the federal jurisdictional threshold of $5 million (under the…
This is a putative class action in which the plaintiffs alleged that their employer, Goldman Sachs, engaged in a pattern of gender discrimination against its female professional employees in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. A July 2011 order from the New…
In October 2012, the Center for Food Safety and the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) — both represented by Public Justice — warned four major Yakima Valley (Wash.) factory farms that they will take them to federal court unless the farms stop…
California consumers in this case alleged that Target violated the law when it imposed sales tax reimbursement charges on their purchases of hot coffee to-go, which are exempt from taxation under California’s tax code. (While the consumers’ receipts says “sales tax,” Target was actually charging…
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…
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