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  • Mississippi Court Administrator Agrees to Continue Providing Attorneys with Access to Youth Court Records, Helping Prevent Youth Court System from Collapsing on July 1

    The agreement was per a court order in a recent lawsuit filed by the state public defender FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jun 30, 2026 Media Contact:Madhvi Venkatraman | Civil Rights Corps | media@civilrightscorps.orgNicole Funaro | Public Justice | nfunaro@publicjustice.net Jackson, MS – On June 24, the Mississippi Office of State Public Defender sued the state Administrative…

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  • Public Justice Announces Finalists for 2026 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award

    For Immediate Release June 24, 2026 Media Contact: Nicole Funaro, Director of Media & Storytelling, Public Justice, communications@publicjustice.net (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Public Justice has announced the finalists for the 2026 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. The TLOY Award celebrates and recognizes the accomplishments of an attorney or a team of attorneys who made the…

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  • Chemours to Resolve Violations of Federal Law at Chemours Washington Works Plant Following WV River Coalition’s Clean Water Act Citizen Suit

    For Immediate Release Contact: Amanda Demmerle, Staff Attorney, Appalachian Mountain Advocates, ademmerle@appalmad.orgJennie Smith, Executive Director, WV Rivers Coalition, jsmith@wvrivers.orgNicole Funaro, Director of Media & Storytelling, Public Justice, communications@publicjustice.net Morgantown, W. Va. — Today, a Consent Decree was lodged in the Southern District of West Virginia that, if approved by the court after a public comment period,…

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  • A Litigation Update in ‘Tennessee v. McMahon’ and ‘Carroll Independent School District v. Department of Education’

    We fought in the courts for a Title IX rule that better protects pregnant and postpartum students. In 2025, two federal courts in Kentucky and Texas struck down the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX Rule after conservative individuals, organizations, and states brought nine lawsuits across the country challenging the 2024 Rule. As a result, the…

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  • U.S. Agents Sued For Damages Under Maine Civil Rights Act For Arresting and Threatening A Peaceful Neighborhood Observer During ICE’s January Rampage

    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…

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

    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…

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  • Statement on Settlement with The Ohio State University

    “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…

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  • Ninth Circuit Denies 22 Young Americans Their Day in Court, Dismissing Constitutional Climate Case Against Trump Fossil Fuel Orders

    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…

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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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