For Immediate Release May 10, 2023 Contact: Lucy Sears lsears@publicjustice.net TEXAS – On April 25, 2023, Texas’ Webb County and jailers at Webb County Jail settled a wrongful death suit for $1.325 million. The lawsuit was first filed in May 2020, on behalf of Nelda Nuncio, the mother of Luis Alberto “Albert” Barrientos, a 22-year-old…
By Wesley M. Griffith of Tycko & Zavareei LLP and Karla Gilbride of Public Justice For the past seven years, Tycko & Zavareei, Public Justice, and Morgan & Morgan have been litigating a putative class action against JPay, a privately-run, for-profit prison service company, before the American Arbitration Association. The arbitration focuses on excessive fees…
By Ellen Noble, Budd Attorney The Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest corporate lobbying organization, is fighting hard against a new rule proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that aims to promote consumer awareness of the terms and conditions buried in the fine print of their boilerplate contracts. The rule would require nonbank…
By Nate Van Duzer, 2022 Summer Law Clerk. Have you checked your credit score lately? Do you know how it can affect your life? A lot of us probably do not think about our credit until it becomes a problem. In theory, our credit score tells a potential lender how likely we are to repay…
For Immediate Release October 25, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Gregg Kelley (202) 319-1070 | gregg_kelley@washlaw.org On Friday, October 21, the legal team representing three Virginia Tech students filed a motion to dismiss lawsuits brought against the college students by their former employer under Maryland’s anti-SLAPP (strategic Lawsuit Against Public…
For Immediate Release October 18, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals revived Amazon workers’ COVID-19 safety claims at its JFK8 facility in Staten Island. Derrick Palmer, a plaintiff in the case, released the following statement: “I’m thrilled the Court agreed that I and other Amazon workers…
For Immediate Release July 27, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a district court’s ruling and held there is evidence that a private, for-profit prison in Louisiana regularly beat detainees in a camera-free hallway and used chemical spray on them while…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears, Communications Director lsears@publicjustice.net SB 1149 Will Protect Californians From Life-Threatening Dangers Hidden By Secret Settlements and Other Legal Maneuvers SACRAMENTO – Yesterday, the California State Senate voted to pass Senate Bill 1149 authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva, which would protect the public’s right to…
For immediate release: May 23, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears, Communications Director lsears@publicjustice.net Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in our case, Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., ruling unanimously in favor of our client Robyn Morgan. Public Justice Access to Justice Co-Director Karla Gilbride issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision: “We are…