By Wesley M. Griffith of Tycko & Zavareei LLP and Karla Gilbride of Public Justice For the past seven years, Tycko & Zavareei, Public Justice, and Morgan & Morgan have been litigating a putative class action against JPay, a privately-run, for-profit prison service company, before the American Arbitration Association. The arbitration focuses on excessive fees…
By Ellen Noble, Budd Attorney The Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest corporate lobbying organization, is fighting hard against a new rule proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that aims to promote consumer awareness of the terms and conditions buried in the fine print of their boilerplate contracts. The rule would require nonbank…
By Nate Van Duzer, 2022 Summer Law Clerk. Have you checked your credit score lately? Do you know how it can affect your life? A lot of us probably do not think about our credit until it becomes a problem. In theory, our credit score tells a potential lender how likely we are to repay…
We now know that new leadership will control the House of Representatives over the next two years. And while Tuesday’s elections were not the resounding tsunami that many had predicted, we must all be ready to take a stand and act to defend the values, the laws – and the loved ones – we hold…
By Karen Ocamb, Director of Media Relations Tom Sobol’s favorite part of the 7,359-word article “Greed on Trial” in the June 2004 issue of The Atlantic is being compared to singer Bruce Springsteen. “My favorite moment during last winter’s $1.3 billion Massachusetts tobacco-fee trial came near the end, when Ronald Kehoe, an avuncular, white-haired assistant attorney…
By Karen Ocamb, Director of Media Relations For nearly 25 years, Senior Meetings & Events Manager Sue Gombert has organized the galas, meetings, and external affairs webinars that help keep the work and exchange of progressive ideas flowing at Public Justice. Too often unheralded, on July 18, 2022, Gombert received this year’s Huntington Hero Award…
In June 2021, Public Justice Executive Director Paul Bland & Staff Attorney Ellen Noble spoke on the latest developments in court secrecy, in a webinar presented free to Public Justice Members as a part of the Justice Talks Series sponsored by Western Alliance Bank. If you are unable to view the above video, either allow the…
In February 2022, former Public Justice Richard Zitrin Anti-Court Secrecy Attorney Craig Briskin & Budd Attorney Ellen Noble spoke on fighting court secrecy in civil litigation, in a webinar presented free to Public Justice Members as a part of the Justice Talks Series sponsored by Western Alliance Bank. If you are unable to view the…
(Pictured above: Amy Cooper testifies before the California Senate Judiciary Committee on 4/5/22 about the preventable OxyContin overdose death of her son) By Karen Ocamb, Director of Media Relations On Tuesday afternoon, California’s Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance SB 1149, the ‘Public Right to Know Act,’ a bill introduced by California Senator Connie M.…