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January 14, 2014 In Blog

And Now For The Good News: US FDA Poised To Restore Drug Injury Victims’ Right to Sue Generic Drug Manufacturers

By Leslie Brueckner, Senior Attorney UPDATE: Public Justice joined these comments filed today in support of the FDA’s proposed rule change. The comments, which were principally authored by Joanne Doroshow at the Center for Justice & Democracy, explain that the proposed rule change is essential to protect…

January 13, 2014 In Blog

Major Crisis in American schools: “Racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem today, and not just an issue from 40 to 50 years ago”

By Sarah Belton, Cartwright-Baron Attorney That was said, out loud, by Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, during his remarks at the unveiling of the Joint Department of Justice and Education Department School Discipline Guidance Package last week. The new Guidance Package is replete with…

January 10, 2014 In Blog Anti-Bullying

Pine Bush Anti-Semitic Bullying Case Spurs Governor Cuomo to Propose Law to Better Protect Students from Discrimination and Harassment

By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney Lawyer bashing is nearly a national sport. But people seem to have forgotten how often civil litigation has led to important social change. And civil litigation is just as important today as it was when a courageous group of individuals…

January 8, 2014 In Blog

Bland Debunks Mayer Brown “Analysis” of Class Actions

Public Justice Senior Attorney Paul Bland takes a look at the deeply flawed results of Mayer Brown’s “empirical analysis” attacking all class actions. Particularly striking, Paul explains, is the timing of this P.R. document — arriving the exact day as the Congressionally mandated study by…

December 31, 2013 In Blog

Injured By a Chemical? You’re Not as Screwed

By Leah Nicholls, Kazan-Budd Attorney Last week, a unanimous DC federal appellate court upheld an Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) regulation clarifying that its regulations about labeling used for chemicals in the workplace do not preempt state-law failure-to-warn claims. In other words, companies can’t…

December 31, 2013 In Blog

FDA Wimps Out on New Antibiotic Guidelines; Risk from Superbugs Continues

By Leslie Brueckner, Senior Attorney The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just punted on what is arguably the scariest public-health crisis of our times: the overuse of antibiotics in the animal industry. In an earlier blog, we explained that over 80% of all the…

December 31, 2013 In Blog

FDA Wimps Out on New Antibiotic Guidelines; Risk from Superbugs Continues

December 30, 2013 In Blog

Gagging Watchdogs in Agriculture Abuse Endangers More than just Animals

By Jessica Culpepper, Food Safety & Health Attorney As an organization that stands up for transparency and calling an industry on its wrongful practices, Public Justice has been 100% behind the fight against ag-gag laws. Ag-gag laws, in case you haven’t heard, are laws that…

December 19, 2013 In Blog

Costco Class-Action Settlement Brings Justice to Women Workers Denied Equal Opportunity

By Sarah Belton, Staff Attorney In 2002 a woman named Shirley Ellis filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that her employer, Costco Wholesale Corporation, denied her a promotion from assistant manager to store manager because she was female. After she filed her…

December 17, 2013 In Blog

“Unimportant” Case Yet Another Way SCOTUS Taking Away Your Rights

By Matt Wessler, Staff Attorney Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life Insurance Co., a case that has generated less attention than almost any other this term. That’s probably because the case combined two of the least exciting areas of the law—statutes…