Quantcast
 
 

Cases / Briefs

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Commissioner v. Banaitis and Commissioner v. Banks

In these consolidated cases, we joined a coalition of civil rights organizations in filing an amici brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the federal government’s attempt to require victims of discrimination to pay income tax on any attorneys’ fees they recover, even though…

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Cohen v. Brown University

In November 1996, we won a ruling in federal court that Brown University violated Title IX when it demoted its women’s gymnastics and volleyball teams from university-funded to donor-funded varsity status. This precedent-setting ruling, which set the standard for determining a school’s compliance with Title IX in…

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Castaneda v. United States

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…

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Carranza-Reyes v. Park County

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…

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Browning v. Southwest Research Institute

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…

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Brown v. District of Columbia

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…

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Botello v. LVMC

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…

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Barrett v. West Chester University

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…

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Banderas v. United States

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….

April 27, 2012 Cases / Briefs

Avirgan v. Hull

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…