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 on behalf of Victoria Hewlett, a former Utah State University (USU) student who, at age 19, was raped and beaten at a fraternity party by a USU student with a known history of sexual violence and harassment….
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…
Public Justice joined an amici brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of the plaintiffs in a Title IX suit against a university for acting with deliberate indifference to student-on-student sexual violence that occurred at fraternities. The university lost…
This is a Title IX lawsuit against the tenth largest school division in the country—Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools—for violating the rights of a student survivor of sexual assault. Jane Doe, a student in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) was sexually assaulted at age 16…
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…
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…
Public Justice joined an amici brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in this Title IX damages action against a university for acting with deliberate indifference to student-on-student sexual violence. Six states filed an amici brief arguing that all states and…
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…
