When some Florida restaurants discovered they were being overcharged for underweight poultry deliveries, they took their supplier to court, suspecting it was a systemic practice that potentially affected many other restaurants. They alleged the supplier, Sysco Systems, was violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA), as well its own contract with the restaurant.…
By Tabitha Woodruff, A2J Project Outreach Attorney Imagine being caught violating the civil rights of more than 20,000 Americans and their families, and then the court system HELPS you hide the evidence and avoid facing trial. If you were a person who had broken the law, this would be unthinkable. But if you are a…
By Karen Ocamb For more than four decades, Preston Tisdale, a longtime attorney with Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, has practiced law, fought for civil rights and engaged in civic activism. But for the new Board President of Public Justice, one case stands out like a strobe light of injustice. While head of the Fairfield Judicial District Public Defender’s…
Photo of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom courtesy of the National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather on Aug. 26 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – a march and…
In July of 2023, Public Justice welcomed Tabitha Woodruff to the team as the organization’s first-ever outreach attorney for the Access to Justice Project! Learn more about Tabitha and her background in her open letter below. Hello! My name is Tabitha Woodruff, and I am the new Outreach Attorney for the Access to Justice project.…
By Camika Shelby When my son, Nigel, took his own life after being bullied and harassed at school simply because he had the courage to be himself, I was devastated. Nigel was full of light and full of joy. When that light was extinguished, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to go on. But all…
Public Justice’s 2023 Trial Lawyer of the Year award was awarded to an incredible group of attorneys who held accountable conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for the lies he spread in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. This year’s award was presented to “The Cases Against Alex Jones and his Companies: Neil Heslin &…
By Karen Ocamb Vicky Ni is the wizard every organization outside of Oz hopes to find pulling the levers behind their management curtain. Having served in almost every staff position at Public Justice throughout her more than two-decade career, Ni retired in January to focus on her health. But exemplifying her last full measure of…
I’ve always considered those of us fortunate enough to work within the trial bar to be especially lucky: We spend our days fighting to make the world a little better for our clients, their families and all of our communities – and, sometimes, we get to make the law a little bit better, too. That’s…