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September 2, 2014 In Blog

Ag Gag On Steroids – Idaho Dairies Urged to Block Media Access To Factory Farms

photo credit: Socially Responsible Agricultural Project via photopin cc By Leslie Brueckner Senior Attorney As if Ag-Gag laws weren’t bad enough, Idaho’s dairy industry just tried to make their practices even more secret by blocking media access to factory farms. If you’ve been reading my…

August 29, 2014 In Blog

Contaminated Community Will Get its Day in Court

By Jessica Culpepper, Food Safety and Health Attorney Corral on west end of facility, with close up of manure. Photo obtained through a records request from the CA water board. Residents in a Helendale, Calif., community finally had their voices heard when district court Judge Jesus…

August 28, 2014 In Blog

Good News for Workers: Ninth Circuit Holds that FedEx Drivers Are Employees

photo credit: International Transport Workers’ Federation via photopin cc By Leah Nicholls Kazan-Budd Attorney If you thought that the FedEx driver who delivered a package to your doorstep was an employee of FedEx, it turns out that you were right. And FedEx was wrong. Yesterday,…

August 25, 2014 In Blog

Watch Today’s Webinar on Proposed Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

2014-08-25 14.01 Proposed Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from Public Justice on Vimeo. Above is a full video of our webinar on Proposed Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. A .PDF of the slides from the webinar is available here….

August 15, 2014 In Blog

It Shouldn’t Be a Secret When Products Are Unsafe

Am image from the Harman complaint. By Leah Nicholls, Staff Attorney, and Leslie Brueckner, Senior Attorney We’ve all heard by now about how hard General Motors worked to hide the problems with its ignition – and how that secrecy killed and injured a lot of people. It…

August 14, 2014 In Blog

Judge Laments that Law of Arbitration Ignores Common Sense

August 12, 2014 In Blog

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 11, 2014 In Blog

Comedian John Oliver Produces Remarkably Strong Piece of Journalism (Albeit Completely Profane) on Payday Lending

August 7, 2014 In Blog

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 In Blog

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…