After a rollover crash in 2007 killed one passenger and severely injured the others, the accident victims sued in Iowa state court. As part of their case, the plaintiffs’ attorneys obtained key documents showing that Cooper was aware of dangerous defects in several of its…
In this case, Public Justice won an important ruling for California long distance phone customers. Phone giant AT&T attempted to impose upon its customers an unfair, one-sided arbitration system, but in February 2003 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down provisions…
Argument that crash victims injured because their cars lack airbags can hold the auto manufacturers accountable. We won a unanimous New Hampshire Supreme Court decision in Tebbetts v. Ford Motor Company that crash victims injured because their cars lack airbags can hold the auto manufacturers…
Lawsuit to hold mortgage brokers accountable for violations of state law and challenging defendant’s federal preemption defense. On August 6, 2005, Maryland’s high court held 7-0 that the federal Depository Institutions and Deregulation Monetary Control Act of 1980 does not preempt Maryland’s Finder’s Fee Law,…
An amici brief filed by Public Justice and 40 other public interest groups and bar associations raises a key constitutional issue about California Proposition 8, passed in November to bar same-sex marriage in the Golden State: can a simple majority of the voting public “amend”…
Federal preemption appeal on behalf of man whose wife was killed when she was repeatedly struck by an unguarded boat propeller. Public Justice’s legal team included Leslie Brueckner, lead counsel; Arthur Bryant and former Public Justice attorney Michael Quirk, co-counsel; and Joseph A. Power, Jr.,…
After the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts struck down a class action ban as unconscionable in this wage-and-hour case, Public Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of appeals for the First Circuit in support of the employee-plaintiffs.
Part of a set of cases against HMOs in Maryland charging that the HMOs violated Maryland law by practicing subrogation. The legal team includes Kieron Quinn of Quinn, Gordon and Wolf; Rob Jenner of Freeman and Jenner; Bruce Plaxen of Plaxen and Adler; Bryant Welch,…
We challenged an arbitration clause in an employment contract that required an employee to arbitrate all of his claims, but permitted the employer to go to court; stripped the employee of substantive rights available to him under federal anti-discrimination laws; changed the burdens of proof…
In this case, plaintiffs Roy and Nelda Gatlin opposed a motion by Sanderson Farms, Inc., to compel arbitration of their state law claims. The Supreme Court of Mississippi ruled that Sanderson Farms, Inc. — one of the top seven poultry producers in the United States…
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