Practice Area: Consumers' Rights

December 21, 2017 In Blog Consumers' Rights

Public Justice Wins Huge Ruling on Behalf of Generic Drug Victims in California Supreme Court

image via macwagen on Flickr by Leslie A. Brueckner, Senior Attorney In a huge blow to Big Pharma immunity, the California Supreme Court has just issued a decision of enormous importance to victims of inadequately labeled prescription drugs. In its watershed 73-page ruling in TH…

November 17, 2017 In Updates Consumers' Rights, Forced Arbitration

Public Justice Statement on Mick Mulvaney Reportedly Being Named CFPB Interim Director

In response to reports that President Trump will name Mick Mulvaney as interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection bureau following Richard Cordray’s departure, Public Justice executive director Paul Bland issued the following statement: We are troubled by reports that President Trump may soon appoint…

November 6, 2017 In Blog Consumers' Rights, Forced Arbitration

Fourth Circuit Throws Out Arbitration Provision With Multiple Unfair Terms

Refuses to “Sanitize” Contract by Letting Bank Agree After the Fact Not to Enforce It By Karla Gilbride Staff Attorney Public Justice’s mission is to fight for ordinary people who are facing economic or social injustice. Often this means fighting against corporations when they engage…

October 30, 2017 In Blog Class Action Preservation, Consumers' Rights, Forced Arbitration

Congress Just Killed Your Right to a Day in Court

But the fight’s not over yet. By Paul Bland Executive Director Last week, 50 Senators joined Vice President Mike Pence to kill one of the most important advances in consumer rights in years. By casting the tie-breaking vote to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s…

September 6, 2017 In Blog Consumers' Rights

Congress Should Reject Rep. Loudermilk’s Bill to Gut Basic Privacy Rights

By Paul Bland Executive Director Credit reporting agencies make a lot of mistakes. More consumers complain to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about the Big Three credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) than almost all other financial companies in the U.S. (mostly about false…

August 14, 2017 In Blog Consumers' Rights

Public Justice Strongly Opposes Harmful Corporate Proposals to Gut Rule 30(b)(6)

Public Justice has just filed comments with the Federal Rules Committee strongly opposing the proposed changes to Rule 30(b)(6), one of the most powerful and important tools for finding out the truth and pinning down corporations. Our comments reflect the serious damage these changes would inflict on consumers, workers and the legal advocates who are their voice and champions. We’re committed to ensuring our Members and their clients have a voice in this process, and our team is working to ensure these proposed changes never become law.

July 6, 2017 In Blog Consumers' Rights, Court Secrecy

When It Comes to Sealing Court Records, The Presumption of Public Access Requires That You “Just Say No”

There’s something the First Amendment does that lawyers tend to forget about. Here in the Ninth Circuit, the First Amendment also grants every member of the public a presumptive right of access to court records—a right that forbids the sealing of court records except in the rarest of circumstances.

June 20, 2017 In Updates Consumers' Rights, Food Project

Public Justice Files Suit on Behalf of American Farmers to Require Country-of-Origin Labeling on Meat Products

Public Justice, representing the Ranchers-Cattlemen Legal Action Fund (R-CALF USA) and Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW), filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, alleging that USDA regulations that allow beef and pork…

June 13, 2017 In Blog Consumers' Rights

Tell Congress: No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for Patient Abuse & Medical Malpractice

The House of Representatives is about to vote on a dangerous new bill that will dramatically roll back accountability in cases taking on medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and dangerous and defective drugs. Please call your Representative and ask them to oppose H.R. 1215, the…

June 12, 2017 In Blog Civil Rights & Liberties, Consumers' Rights, Workers' Rights

Trial Lawyer of the Year Award Finalists Show Why Access to the Courts and Class Actions are So Important

This year’s finalists for Public Justice’s Trial Lawyer of the Year Award highlight the kinds of cases, individual and class action, filed and litigated in state and federal courts every day. They show why access to the courts and class actions are so important. And they show why some government officials and corporate wrongdoers are so eager to bar access to the courts and hamstring or ban class actions.