Public Justice and its co-counsel, Jack Landskroner and Scott Smith, represent thirty-nine former students of The Ohio State University (OSU) who are suing the university over the sexual abuse they suffered while being examined by OSU physician Richard Strauss. They are among the potentially thousands…
This is a civil rights and negligence case against a West Virginia school district and sheriff’s department on behalf of a biracial high school student assaulted with a blade after the school district ignored repeated reports of racial cyberbullying and threats by her attacker, a…
This is a civil rights and negligence case against a state college that failed to respond appropriately to reports of student-on-student dating violence and, as a result, the victim died. Fatima Larios, a promising student-athlete on the softball team at Chadron State College in Nebraska…
This is a civil rights case brought by an Oklahoma middle school student subjected to three sexual assaults by his male peers in an 18-month period, almost daily verbal harassment and bullying, and threats of physical harm and death in Washington Public Schools that went…
This was a Title IX sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of Dallas Richards, who stopped attending a public high school in Williamson County, Tennessee, because school officials failed to take appropriate steps to protect her from sexual harassment by a male student. In 2013, while Ms….
This case arose from the sexual harassment and assault of a 14-year-old female student in an Alabama public school. The girl was raped by a male student in a school bathroom after the school used her as bait in a plan to catch the known…
This federal civil rights lawsuit was filed by Lisa Shively on behalf of her daughter, T.S., a 17-year old Jewish girl who stopped attending public school in Northeast Ohio after enduring over four years of anti-Semitic and gender-based harassment with virtually no intervention by school…
This is a tort action brought by five current and former students at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, Ill. All five students were subjected to physical and sexual assault while members of Maine West High School sports teams (soccer and baseball) as part…
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…
