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  • Former Amazon Worker Challenges Trump Administration’s Attack on Disparate-Impact Discrimination Claims

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2025 Media Contacts: Aidan O’Shea, FarmSTAND, Aidan@farmstand.org, (202) 594-8536 Nicole Funaro, Public Justice, nfunaro@publicjustice.net Omar Baddar, Public Citizen, obaddar@citizen.org, 202-588-7741 Valerie L. Collins, Towards Justice, valerie@towardsjustice.org, (720) 295-1672 EEOC’s sudden reversal on disparate-impact discrimination is latest in effort to weaken civil rights safeguards   Leah Cross, a former Amazon delivery…

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  • Federal Court in Boston Rules that IBM Broke Federal Law By Trying to Shorten the Deadline for Suing It over Age Discrimination

    Media contact: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice, nfunaro@publicjustice.net BOSTON — Judge Angel Kelley on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of an IBM worker who was let go because of his age along with about 20,000 other workers as part of discriminatory mass layoffs. Judge Kelley held that his age…

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  • Congressional Amicus Brief Filed Urging Full D.C. Circuit to Hear Case on Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle CFPB

    All Democrats on Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee—the committees that oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—have urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rehear a case challenging the Trump Administration’s attacks on the CFPB. The members of Congress joining the amicus brief are represented by Public…

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  • TikTok Discrimination Appeal Answered: Filing Defends Key Worker Protections Against Forced Arbitration

    Contact: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice nfunaro@publicjustice.net August 27, 2025 Plaintiff’s answering brief argues that the district court correctly applied federal law exempting sexual harassment claims from forced arbitration   New York, NY – Yesterday, attorneys for former senior TikTok executive Katie Puris filed their response in an appeal by the company to force Puris’s sexual…

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  • Public Justice Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Luke Davis, et al.

    Today, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision dismissing as improvidently granted Labcorp v. Davis, Public Justice released the following statement: The U.S. Supreme Court correctly recognized that it could not reach the merits in this case. This dismissal allows longstanding jurisprudence recognizing the appropriate framework for considering Article III standing in class actions…

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  • Court Accountability Advocate Files Motion in Abrego Garcia Case To Ensure Public Access to Hearings

    For Immediate Release May 12, 2025 Contact: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice nfunaro@publicjustice.net Gabe Roth, Fix the Court gabe@fixthecourt.com | 202-780-4990 Greenbelt, MD – Fix the Court has filed a motion to intervene in Abrego Garcia v. Noem to ensure the public has remote access to hearings in this important case. Fix the Court is a…

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  • 203 Members of Congress Call Trump Administration’s Efforts to Dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Dangerous and Illegal

    In a Friend of the Court Brief, Lawmakers State That Only Congress Has the Power To Shutter the CFPB, and That the Agency Is Critical for Preventing Future Economic Crises   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 28, 2025 Contact: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice nfunaro@publicjustice.net Washington, DC – Calling the Trump Administration’s attacks on the Consumer Financial…

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  • After FCC Abandons Popular Telemarketing Rule, Consumers Take Action to Save It

    Small business owners and consumer advocates have stepped up to save a popular anti-robocall rule ContactNicole Funaro, Public Justice nfunaro@publicjustice.net Stephen Rouzer, National Consumer Law Center srouzer@nclc.org (202) 320-8394  ATLANTA  — Yesterday, four small business owners and the National Consumers League asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for permission to intervene…

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  • Liability and Trump’s DEIA Executive Orders: A Guide for Employers and Attorneys

    On January 20 and 21, the Trump administration issued a pair of executive orders that target diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (“DEI” or “DEIA”) programs. The orders threaten the government’s ability to serve people from all backgrounds equally, and they are designed to intimidate and discourage employers and organizations from taking lawful steps to increase…

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