Class action Title IX lawsuit against Brown University for cancelling women’s gymnastics and volleyball, and for depriving women of equal opportunities to participate in intercollegiate athletics. Lynette Labinger of Roney & Labinger was lead counsel; Buddy DeLuca of Mandell, Goodman, DeLuca & Schwartz, Ray Marcaccio…
This is a wrongful death and survival action against multiple defendants, including the United States, for causing the penile amputation and death of former federal immigration detainee Francisco Castaneda. The lawsuit alleges that Mr. Castaneda died as a result of medical negligence, health care policies…
Civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Mexican immigrant who was never charged with any crime and whose one-week detention in a squalid Colorado jail that denied him sanitary housing and adequate medical care resulted in an infection that cost him a leg, part of a…
Sex discrimination case on behalf of female scientist charging her former employer, Southwest Research Institute, with denying her equal pay and promotional opportunities in violation of Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964. Plaintiff also charged her former employer with retaliatory conduct. Plaintiff sought…
Amici brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to protect a prisoner’s right to hold a private corporation accountable when its employees violate a prisoner’s constitutional rights. Public Justice submitted an amici brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
Suit brought against the New Mexico Department of Health and state psychiatric hospitals for failing to evaluate and properly treat “dual diagnosis” patients with both mental illnesses and development disabilities. A settlement was reached ensuring that thepatients will get the specialized medical attention and treatment…
This Title IX lawsuit was brought against West Chester University (West Chester, PA) for canceling the women’s gymnastics team and depriving women of equal treatment in intercollegiate athletics. Sharon McKee and William Hangley of Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin are lead counsel. Public Justice’s Leslie…
This was a Federal Tort Claims Act and civil rights suit on behalf of Martin Hernandez Banderas, a former federal immigration detainee who received such grossly inadequate medical care for a diabetic foot wound that doctors recommended amputating his right leg to save his life….
We agreed to assist the Christic Institute with discovery in Avirgan v. Hull, the Contragate racketeering case alleging that the federal government’s illegal activities against the Contras in Nicaragua led to the bombing of a press conference and the injuries of journalist Tony Avirgan. More…
These are consolidated lawsuits on behalf of 193 prisoners who suffered physical and mental injuries as a result of a riot that occurred at Crowley County Correctional Facility in Colorado, a prison owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private operator in…
