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May 27, 2020 In Blog
Modern Day Robber Barons Siphon Away Economic Impact Payments
By Paul Bland Executive Director It reads like a plot from a 21st century Charles Dickens novel: More than 40 million unemployed. Nearly 100,000 dead in the United States alone. 3.6 million homeowners unable to pay their mortgages. And, to add insult to injury, businesses snatching…
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May 15, 2020 In Blog
Peloton’s Cycle of Broken Promises
“Pedaling a Stationary Bike” by dfmobile is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 As lockdowns and quarantines continue across the country, and Americans look to maintain as much of their usual routine as possible while the COVID pandemic disrupts so many aspects of everyone’s lives, we learned this week of…
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Tips for Law Firms Seeking Funds Under the Paycheck Protection Program
By Janet Varnell Board Member Paul Bland Executive Director In response to the economic devastation created by the COVID-19 crisis, Congress created the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) as part of the CARES Act. The PPP provides extremely low-cost loans, which will be forgiven if a…
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Congress Can Stop the Pandemic From Causing Credit Pain for Decades
Ask your Senators and Representatives to support the Disaster Protections for Workers’ Credit Act By Paul Bland Executive Director In the weeks since the COVID-19 outbreak began, nearly 10 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits. The numbers are historic, the graphs on the front…
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Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Courts Should Allow Remote Depositions During the COVID-19 Crisis
By Paul Bland Executive Director Many people have reacted heroically during the COVID-19 crisis, caring for others (sometimes at great risk to themselves) and showing humanity and kindness. But, unfortunately, the crisis seems to have brought out the worst in some other people. Specifically, some…
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Launching a New Challenge to Texas’ Unconstitutional Drone Statute
By Leah Nicholls Senior Attorney On Friday, Public Justice client the National Press Photographers Association filed an amicus brief in a case in Victoria, Texas, urging the local district court to hold that the Texas statute governing use of drones violates the First Amendment of…
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Being Arrested Doesn’t Take Away Your Consumer Rights
Appeals Court Deals a Blow to the Prison-Industrial Complex By Karla Gilbride Cartwright-Baron Staff Attorney On any given day in the United States, some 2.3 million people are locked up between state and federal prisons, local and county jails, and immigration detention centers. That’s more…
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Fighting to Protect Injury Victims from Roundup, the Cancer-Causing Weedkiller that Monsanto Just Can’t Quit
By Leslie Brueckner Senior Attorney “[We] cannot say that Roundup does not cause cancer [because] we have not done carcinogenicity studies with Roundup.” That’s what Monsanto toxicologist and chief glyphosate spokesperson Donna Farmer said in 2009 about the risks of Roundup, Monsanto’s best-selling weedkiller. Six…
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The Double Taxation of Attorney Fee Awards Leaves Wronged Consumers In the Cold. Help Us End It.
Ask Your Senators to Support S. 2627 Russell and Jennie Kinney thought they had achieved the American Dream. Although they are of modest means and rely on what Russell is able to make as a mechanic in their small town in rural Maine to get…
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Migrant Worker Defeats Corporate Arbitration Clause by Using Employer’s Practices Against It
By Rodolfo Padilla Legal Fellow Current federal law strongly favors enforcing arbitration clauses against workers. But there are limits, and Judge Edward M. Chen of the Northern District of California found they were reached in this case. The court held that an arbitration contract between…