Public Justice and Nichols Kaster represent students of color and their families in a civil rights lawsuit against Duluth Public Schools Academy d/b/a Duluth Edison Charter Schools that seeks to hold the public charter school system accountable for subjecting black and biracial students to a…
This is a civil rights suit on behalf of Jane Doe, a biracial female who, at age 16, was forced to engage in a sexual act at school by a high school male student. When Jane Doe reported the incident to school officials, they did…
Public Justice joined an amici brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, then later to the Fourth Circuit, in a lawsuit brought by Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy challenging his Virginia high school’s bathroom policy, which bars transgender students from communal restrooms and forces them to…
This is a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of Rafael Edgardo Solis, Sr., a pretrial detainee at the Webb County Jail in Texas who died of asphyxiation allegedly caused by the jailers’ use of excessive force against him. Mr. Solis was taken…
We represent Kamaria Downs, a graduate of South Carolina’s Claflin University, who was forced by university officials to vacate her dormitory and move off campus during her senior year because she was pregnant. The university had a policy that prohibited that prohibited pregnant students from…
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…
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…
Public Justice is co-counsel for Prathees Murugesapillai, a Sri Lankan native who suffered severe brain damage as a result of grossly inadequate medical care for meningitis while in immigration detention and at the hospital where he was provided treatment. Murugesapillai now has permanent cognitive deficits…
A female lacrosse coach who was fired after raising questions about whether the athletic program at a south Florida high school was being fair to female athletes was reinstated, and her team got to play in the school’s best athletic facility, under the terms of…
This class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of hundreds of peaceful protesters who were arrested and jailed on December 1, 1999, pursuant to the City of Seattle’s “no-protest zone” policy that was put into effect during the WTO Ministerial Conference. The case sought damages,…
