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Same Story, New Ending: Court Overturns Order Sealing Chrysler Defect Records
photo credit: dharder9475 via photopin cc Jennifer Bennett Budd-Kazan Attorney It’s the same story, over and over again: Corporation conceals deadly defect. Someone dies, and their family sues. Corporation settles quietly. Court records are sealed. Nobody finds out. More people are hurt; more people sue;…
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A Payday Lender’s Race to the Bottom
by Gabriel Hopkins Thornton-Robb Attorney Scott Tucker loves fast cars. That might be why he raced to the bottom as the owner and operator of a payday lending business whose complicated and lopsided repayment plan duped millions of consumers. Now the details of this operation…
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December 3, 2015 In Blog
In Organic Labeling Ruling, Cal. Supreme Court Ensures Corporations Can’t Duck Consumer Fraud Suits
By Leslie Brueckner Senior Attorney The California Supreme Court has just issued a groundbreaking unanimous decision in Quesada v. Herb Thyme Farms, Inc., upholding the rights of consumers to sue a grower – Herb Thyme – for intentionally mislabeling conventionally grown herbs as “organic” and…
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An Energy Company’s Fake Farm, Watered with Heavy Metal Rain
An image from last week’s notice letter. By Richard Webster Staff Attorney, Environmental Enforcement Project Until I saw it, it was hard to believe that in the heart of Utah, PacifiCorp, a local power company, was running a fake farm watered with coal ash waste that…
October 13, 2015
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AIEG and Public Justice Join in Fighting Court Secrecy – We Need You in the Fight
Lee Brown, President, AIEG Arthur Bryant, Chairman, Public Justice The past year was unprecedented in the world of auto safety. The world learned of ignition switches that could fail, causing loss of control and airbag non-deployment; airbags that shoot shrapnel into the occupant compartment when…
September 24, 2015
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Important Highway Guardrail Safety Information Set Free in Landmark Consumer Safety Win
Image from the Harman v. Trinity complaint. By Leah M. NichollsStaff Attorney Highway guardrails are big business. And they are also important safety devices: The wrong guardrail design can mean the difference between life and death, between walking away from a car crash and losing…
September 17, 2015
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Heaven, Hell and The U.S. Chamber: 13 Years of Anti-Judicial Propaganda
Photo via Judit Klein on Flickr By Arthur BryantChairman The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform just released the latest version of the propaganda piece it started publishing in 2002. Entitled 2015 Lawsuit Climate Survey: Ranking the States, the report summarizes the answers…
September 15, 2015
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Let’s Make Sure Class Actions Can Still Do Their Job
Image by Grant Hutchinson via Flickr By Leah NichollsStaff Attorney Here at Public Justice, we see class actions as an important tool for righting wrongs and holding the powerful accountable. As part of our efforts to promote and protect class actions, we’re working to make sure…
September 2, 2015
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U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether Class Action Defendants Can Bribe Their Way Out of Legal Trouble
Image via Chris Potter on Flickr By Leslie BruecknerSenior Attorney The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide an issue of huge importance to everyone who cares about access to justice. The question, in Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez, is whether corporate defendants in class actions are…
August 26, 2015
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Will Congress Act to Protect All Big Ag Whistleblowers?
Photo via Steven Depolo on Flickr By David MuraskinFood Safety & Health Attorney Congress is poised to pass into law a bill that will provide unique protections for industrial agricultural companies to hide their harms to consumers, competition, and workers. The Senate recently passed S….