This is the first lawsuit in Maine under state law for monetary remedies against DHS agents for violating the constitutional rights of legal observers, and one of the first actions for damages under a state civil rights law against DHS agents nationwide. The Plaintiff is a retired VA counselor who was exercising his constitutional right…
Civil rights groups today won an appeal in a federal class action lawsuit that seeks to block the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s office from wrongly extracting money from people before releasing them from jail and from demanding payment under coercive terms. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that plaintiffs are harmed by the jail’s…
“Ohio State and 279 of the 280 individual remaining Richard Strauss survivors involved in the pending litigation have reached settlements in principle in a total amount of $100 million. The university’s Board of Trustees has now publicly ratified these agreements in principle, and all parties thank the mediators for their assistance. The mediation and its…
Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Communications Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, communications@publicjustice.net PORTLAND, Ore. — Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Lighthiser v. Trump, a youth-led constitutional climate case brought by 22 young Americans from Montana, Oregon, Hawai’i, California, and Florida. The court did not…
Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Communications Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, communications@publicjustice.net WASHINGTON — Eighteen young people represented by Our Children’s Trust and Public Justice filed a motion for stay in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, asking the court to pause…
Media Contacts: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice Media Relations Strategist, communications@publicjustice.net Veronica Fowler, ACLU of Iowa Communications Director, veronica.fowler@aclu-ia.org, 515-451-1777 Civil rights groups today won an appeal in a federal class action lawsuit that seeks to block the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s office from wrongly extracting money from people before releasing them from jail and from…
Groups Urge Lawmakers to Reject Enova and OppFi’s National Bank Applications and to Support State and Federal Interest Rate Limits WASHINGTON – Today, over 100 consumer, civil rights, and community organizations — including Public Justice — sent a letter urging members of Congress to stop predatory bank loans by opposing the unprecedented national bank applications…
Today, survivors from the three largest lawsuits against The Ohio State University jointly filed a brief regarding which OSU officials had authority to stop Dr. Richard Strauss’s abuse during his tenure at the University. “Seven years ago, Ohio State University’s commissioned Perkins Coie report established that the University knew about Dr. Richard Strauss’s sexual misconduct…
April 13, 2026 Media Contacts: Public Justice, communications@publicjustice.net Tamara Marquez, Communications Director, ICIJ, tamara@ic4ij.org Ben Camacho, The Southlander, 562-287-4629, ben.camacho@thesouthlander.com Emily Elena Dugdale, Executive Editor, Los Angeles Public Press, eedugdale@lapublicpress.org RIVERSIDE, CA — Public Justice’s motion to intervene in Hugo Gonzalez, et al. v. The GEO Group, Inc., et al. has been granted, clearing a…