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August 12, 2014
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This Shark Week, Let’s Look Closely at Who’s Preying on Whom
By Sarah Belton, Cartwright-Baron Attorney, and Leslie Bailey, Staff Attorney photo credit: Grey Nurse Sharks by Richard Ling, CC-BY-2.0. One noted impact of the Recession is the widening wealth gap between white families and families of color. This gap didn’t just emerge naturally—at least part of the gap is the…
August 7, 2014
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Safer Coal Ash Disposal Drives Closure of Power Plant in West Virginia
photo credit: The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy via photopin cc The true cost of coal-fired power plants is more than businesses can bear By Richard Webster Staff Attorney An alliance of West Virginia environmental groups represented by Public Justice and allies recently settled with…
August 4, 2014
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Court Overturns Florida’s Ban on Same-Sex Marriage to Allow Woman to Dissolve Civil Union
Photo credit: OZinOH via photopin cc By Adrian Alvarez Goldberg Robb Attorney A Florida judge’s ruling that the state’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution is the third order of its kind to come out in less than a month. But…
July 30, 2014
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UPDATED: Obama Order Single Most Important Step for Civil Rights in 20+ Years
Photo via Mark Blacknell on Flickr Major news outlets are reporting that President Obama is preparing to sign an executive order providing that corporations who receive federal contracts worth more than $1 million may not require their workers to submit to forced arbitration clauses for…
July 29, 2014
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Consumers Win with Court Ruling on Meat Labels
By Jessica Culpepper Food Safety and Health Attorney The DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a hugely important opinion today in American Meat Institute v. United States Dep’t of Agriculture, upholding the USDA’s Country of Origin Labeling rule requiring increased specificity regarding where the meat…
July 21, 2014
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What “Greedy” Trial Lawyers and “Frivolous” Litigation Do
autumnal_hedge via photopin cc By Arthur BryantChairman Corporate America loves to trash trial lawyers because trial lawyers hold them accountable – when they break the law, cheat people, sell defective products, discriminate, mistreat workers, poison the water and air or maximize profit over safety and…
July 18, 2014
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Can “Pregnancy Blind” Company Policies Constitute Pregnancy Discrimination? U.S. Supreme Court to Decide.
Image via Tuckner Sipser By Adrian Alvarez Goldberg-Robb Attorney Does United Parcel Services discriminate against a pregnant worker when it refuses to assign her to “light duty” while she’s pregnant, but assigns light duty to a worker who breaks his arm on the job? This…
July 17, 2014
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American Apparel Hides Sexual Harassment and More through Mandatory Arbitration
American Apparel arbitration clause via Jezebel. By Arthur Bryant Chairman An eye-opening piece by Stephen Davidoff Solomon in The New York Times highlights a huge, unappreciated danger of corporations requiring employees to sign mandatory arbitration “agreements” to get or keep their jobs – hiding outrageous…