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  • Youth Petitioners Ask Federal Court to Pause EPA’s Erasure of the Endangerment Finding and Vehicle Pollution Limits Before Damage to Children’s Constitutional Rights Becomes Impossible to Reverse

    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…

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  • Public Justice and the ACLU of Iowa Win Appeal in Black Hawk County Lawsuit

    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…

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  • Broad Coalition Urges Congress to Oppose Unaffordable 100%+ APR Bank Loans

    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…

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  • OSU Survivors File Joint Brief Regarding Which University Officials Had Authority to Stop Strauss Abuse

    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…

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  • Motion to Intervene Granted, One Major Step Closer to Unsealing Crucial Records and Video Footage of Abuse at Notorious Adelanto Immigration Facility

    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…

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  • Youth Plaintiffs Urge Ninth Circuit to Reinstate Constitutional Climate Case Challenging Federal Fossil Fuel Orders

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2026 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, nfunaro@publicjustice.net PORTLAND, Ore. — Youth plaintiffs from across the United States appeared today before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Lighthiser v. Trump, urging the Court to reverse a…

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  • Save the Date: 22 Youth Head to Portland for Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments in ‘Lighthiser v. Trump’

    PORTLAND – Youth suing the Trump administration are heading back to federal court. On April 13, 2026, youth from across the country will stand before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Lighthiser v. Trump, challenging President Trump’s pro-fossil fuel Executive Orders that “unleash” fossil fuels, block renewable energy development, suppress critical climate science, and…

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  • AAJ, Public Justice Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Reject Monsanto’s Effort to Seek Legal Immunity

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Wednesday, April 1, 2026  Contact: Meredith Rogers, Meredith.Rogers@justice.org, (771) 241-9680 Communications@publicjustice.net Joint Amicus Brief Asks the Court to Uphold the Court of Appeals’ Decision in ‘Monsanto v. Durnell’ WASHINGTON, DC — The American Association for Justice (AAJ) and Public Justice filed an amici curiae brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to…

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  • Public Justice Statement on Endangered Species Committee’s Vote to Exempt Oil and Gas Drilling in Gulf of Mexico from Endangered Species Act Protections

    On Tuesday, March 31, the Endangered Species Committee voted to suspend the Endangered Species Act’s protections of the extremely endangered Rice’s whale and that of endangered sea turtles and sperm whales. In doing so, the Trump administration overrode a National Marine Fisheries Service mandate for oil and gas ships in the Gulf of Mexico that…

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