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  • Major Win for Messa & Associates Attorney Laura E. Laughlin and Co-Counsel Adele Kimmel of Public Justice in Their Case Against North Penn School District Involving the Repeated Sexual Harassment of Student

        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…

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  • Virginia Tech Students Fight Lawsuit After Reporting Illegal Wage Theft

        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…

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  • Plaintiffs in Palmer v. Amazon Revive Safety Claims in Second Circuit Victory

    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…

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  • Victory: Approved Consent Decree Requires Cleanup of Drummond’s Maxine Mine Site

    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…

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  • Fifth Circuit Federal Appeals Court Holds Family’s Wrongful Death Suit Against For-Profit Prison Must Go to Jury, Reviving Due Process Claims

    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…

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  • Public Justice’s Statement in Response to the U.S. Department of Education’s Proposed Title IX Regulations

    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…

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  • Public Justice Statement in Support of Attorney Karla Gilbride’s Nomination to Serve as General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

    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…

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  • California Senate Passes “Public Right to Know Act”

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears, Communications Director lsears@publicjustice.net SB 1149 Will Protect Californians From Life-Threatening Dangers Hidden By Secret Settlements and Other Legal Maneuvers   SACRAMENTO – Yesterday, the California State Senate voted to pass Senate Bill 1149 authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva, which would protect the public’s right to…

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  • Public Justice Statement on Supreme Court Win in ‘Morgan v. Sundance’

    For immediate release: May 23, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears, Communications Director lsears@publicjustice.net Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in our case, Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., ruling unanimously in favor of our client Robyn Morgan. Public Justice Access to Justice Co-Director Karla Gilbride issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision: “We are…

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