By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney Far too often, schools are not doing what the law and their own anti-bullying policies require to protect our children from bullying. In fact, eight out of every ten times that a child gets bullied at school, no adult intervenes….
By Jim Hecker, Environmental Enforcement Project Director It is not often that the trajectory of a single case provides a barometer for regulatory change, but Public Justice’s 15-year battle to stop a huge mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia does. When we first sued the…
By Spencer Wilson, Brayton-Thornton Attorney Do principles of fairness require duped consumers to arbitrate their claims against a corporation even when it is undisputed the parties never agreed to arbitrate? That is what Best Buy argued last week when the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in…
By Leah Nicholls, Kazan-Budd Attorney Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held, unanimously, that states can limit access to their public records to citizens of that state. The case was McBurney v. Young, and it challenged a provision of Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act providing…
By Leslie Brueckner, Senior Attorney When I was a kid, steak was a luxury. A pork roast was a treat. Even chicken wasn’t cheap. Meat was something special, and prices reflected that fact. The reason meat and poultry cost real money back then is because…
By Arthur Bryant, Executive Director In high school, I knew classmates who broke the rules to cut classes. Unfortunately, five members of the U.S Supreme Court just did the same thing. After briefing and argument were complete in Comcast v. Behrend and Genesis Healthcare Corp….
By Paul Bland, Senior Attorney Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court, by the usual 5-4 vote, decided in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to enforce previously illegal contract terms banning consumers from joining together to sue businesses that…
By Adrian Alvarez, Goldberg-Robb Attorney Disability harassment in our schools is a serious problem. A recent study found that students with disabilities are more likely than their non-disabled peers to be bullied. The study also showed that students with disabilities tended to be less popular,…
By Paul Bland, Senior Attorney In a class action, one or more people who believe their legal rights have been violated bring a lawsuit on behalf of a group of people whom they believe have been harmed in the same way. The person or persons…
By Jim Hecker, Environmental Enforcement Project Director The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ streamlined procedure for permitting coal mines to fill Appalachian streams with mining waste suffered another blow yesterday when an appeals court threw out the Corps’ 2007 version of Nationwide Permit 21, commonly…
