For Immediate Release: May 16, 2023 Press Contacts: Cheryl Bonnachi, Civil Rights Corps | 818-339-6928 | cheryl@civilrightscorps.org Sara Rosenblit, Munger, Tolles and Olson, LLP | press@mto.com Lucy Sears, Public Justice | (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff grants motion for preliminary injunction, halting enforcement of LA County’s cash bail schedule,…
For Immediate Release May 10, 2023 Contact: Lucy Sears lsears@publicjustice.net TEXAS – On April 25, 2023, Texas’ Webb County and jailers at Webb County Jail settled a wrongful death suit for $1.325 million. The lawsuit was first filed in May 2020, on behalf of Nelda Nuncio, the mother of Luis Alberto “Albert” Barrientos, a 22-year-old…
For Immediate Release May 8, 2023 Contact: Lucy Sears (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Bland Oversaw Transformation of Organization’s Focus, Mission and Success WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Public Justice executive director Paul Bland, a renowned litigator and nationally respected authority on preserving class litigation and fighting forced arbitration announced that he plans…
For Immediate Release May 1, 2023 Contact: Ragan Whitlock, Center for Biological Diversity, (727) 426-3653, rwhitlock@biologicaldiversity.org Lucy Sears, Public Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Project, (240) 676-4499, lsears@publicjustice.net Justin Bloom, Tampa Bay Waterkeeper, (941) 275-2922, jbloom@suncoastwaterkeeper.org Glenn Compton, ManaSota-88, (941) 966-6256, manasota88@comcast.net Problematic Site Has Operated Without Permitting for More Than 20 Years ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following litigation,…
Today, in response to Congress’s reintroduction of the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act, Public Justice released the following statement: “Public Justice applauds Rep. Hank Johnson and Sen. Richard Blumenthal for reintroducing both House and Senate versions of the FAIR Act, which seeks to end the secretive and rigged practice of forced arbitration and ensure…
For Immediate Release: April 4, 2023 Plaintiffs Have Stated Claims for Deliberate Indifference to Sexual Harassment & Retaliation, Violations of Massachusetts Civil Rights Laws, Court Rules April 4, BOSTON – On March 31, 2023, Magistrate Judge Judith Dein of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts affirmed that the claims of…
For Immediate Release: March 29, 2023 Media Contact: Lucy Sears, lsears@publicjustice.net HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA – The family of Nigel Shelby, a Black, openly gay teenager who died by suicide after experiencing severe, unchecked anti-gay harassment and race discrimination while attending Alabama’s Huntsville High School, reached a settlement with the Huntsville City Board of Education, concluding the federal…
For Immediate Release: March 13, 2023 NEW YORK and BOSTON — Sanford Heisler Sharp announced today that Public Justice is joining as co-counsel in its ongoing litigation against Harvard University and the President and Fellows of Harvard College. On February 8, 2022, Sanford Heisler Sharp filed a complaint in Massachusetts federal court alleging that Harvard…
For Immediate Release: March 6, 2023 Media Contact: People’s Parity Project: Molly Coleman | molly@peoplesparity.org Towards Justice: David Seligman | david@towardsjustice.org Public Justice: Lucy Sears | lsears@publicjustice.net National Consumer Law Center: Stephen Rouzer | srouzer@nclc.org Open Markets Institute: Sandeep Vaheesan | vaheesan@openmarketsinstitute.org Worker and consumer rights advocates from California and across the country call on…