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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…

July 30, 2014 In Blog

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 In Blog

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…