LGBTQ+ venues like Club Q should be places of freedom, not fear. Hope, not hatred. And community, not killing. But while much is not yet known, it is undeniable that Saturday’s tragedy takes place against a backdrop of hateful speech targeting LGBTQ+ people, and that this was particularly true in Colorado Springs. Without knowing what…
For Immediate Release November 14, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Contact: Cheryl Bonacci (818) 339-6928 | cheryl@civilrightscorps.org LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – On November 14, 2022, Public Justice’s Debtors’ Prison Project, in partnership with Civil Rights Corps, Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai LLP, Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, LLP, and Munger,…
For Immediate Release October 24, 2022 Contact: Sarah King (215) 568-3500 | sking@messalaw.com The lawsuit filed in December 2020, Jane Doe v. North Penn School District, seeks to hold North Penn School District accountable for its failure to appropriately respond to the repeated sexual assaults of Jane Doe by a classmate and failure…
For Immediate Release October 25, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Gregg Kelley (202) 319-1070 | gregg_kelley@washlaw.org On Friday, October 21, the legal team representing three Virginia Tech students filed a motion to dismiss lawsuits brought against the college students by their former employer under Maryland’s anti-SLAPP (strategic Lawsuit Against Public…
For Immediate Release October 18, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals revived Amazon workers’ COVID-19 safety claims at its JFK8 facility in Staten Island. Derrick Palmer, a plaintiff in the case, released the following statement: “I’m thrilled the Court agreed that I and other Amazon workers…
For Immediate Release August 11, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In a major victory for the health of the lower Locust Fork and the Black Warrior River, a federal judge in Birmingham has granted the request by Black Warrior Riverkeeper and its attorneys, the Southern Environmental Law Center and Public…
For Immediate Release July 27, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a district court’s ruling and held there is evidence that a private, for-profit prison in Louisiana regularly beat detainees in a camera-free hallway and used chemical spray on them while…
We’re pleased to see that the U.S. Department of Education has finally released its proposed Title IX regulations. If adopted after the coming notice and comment period, these regulations would undo the Trump administration’s efforts to gut Title IX’s protections for student survivors of sexual harassment, and would also expand much-needed protections to other victims…
For Immediate Release June 3, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Washington, DC – The Public Justice Foundation issued the following statement in support of President Biden’s nomination of Karla Gilbride, a Senior Attorney and Co-Director of the Access to Justice Project at Public Justice, to serve as General Counsel of the Equal…