Class action litigation is often framed as a powerful tool for leveling the playing field between ordinary people and large corporations. Class actions were designed to allow people who might otherwise lack the resources to pursue claims individually, or whose claims do not make economic sense to pursue individually, to aggregate their claims and hold…
WASHINGTON — The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), joined by 95 other fair housing, consumer advocacy, and civil rights organizations and a former HUD official, filed a comment today urging HUD to withdraw its proposed rule removing disparate impact protections from its Title VI regulations. Those protections help ensure equal opportunity and freedom from unnecessary…
Media Contacts: Public Justice, communications@publicjustice.net Tamara Marquez, tamara@ic4ij.org RIVERSIDE, CA — Public Justice has filed motions to intervene and unseal court records on behalf of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice in Ronduen, et al. v. The GEO Group, Inc., et al., a class action case pending in the Central District of California alleging use…
Contact:Hannah Riley Fernandez, The Center for Just Journalism, hannah@justjournalism.orgNicole Funaro, Public Justice, nfunaro@publicjustice.netJen Nessel, Center for Constitutional Rights, press@ccrjustice.org For the Record: the Center for Just Journalism, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Public Justice release a comprehensive guide to finding data within the criminal legal system and filing effective records requests August 4, 2026…
Media contacts:Public Justice: communications@publicjustice.netDavid Webbert: 207-333-2725; david@work.law This is the first lawsuit filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) against the U.S. government for the actions of DHS agents during ICE’s “Operation Catch of the Day.” Portland – Robert Peck, of South Portland, filed his FTCA claim in Maine federal court this morning against…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2026 Media Contacts: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice, communications@publicjustice.net Tamara Marquez, Communications Director, ICIJ, tamara@ic4ij.org Ben Camacho, The Southlander, 562-287-4629, ben.camacho@thesouthlander.com Emily Elena Dugdale, Executive Editor, Los Angeles Public Press, eedugdale@lapublicpress.org RIVERSIDE, CA — Video footage of a use of force incident, along with more than 50 other records have been…
The agreement was per a court order in a recent lawsuit filed by the state public defender FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jun 30, 2026 Media Contact:Madhvi Venkatraman | Civil Rights Corps | media@civilrightscorps.orgNicole Funaro | Public Justice | nfunaro@publicjustice.net Jackson, MS – On June 24, the Mississippi Office of State Public Defender sued the state Administrative…
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…
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…