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  • 19 States and Guam Move to Intervene Against Youth in Constitutional Climate Case — a First Among 450+ Challenges to Trump-Era Executive Orders

    Media Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Andrea Rodgers, Senior Litigation Attorney, 206.696.2851, andrea@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Comms. Associate Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, nfunaro@publicjustice.net Missoula, MT— In an unusual move, the State of Montana, 18 other states*, and the U.S. territory of Guam have filed a motion to intervene in…

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  • Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Elite Washington, D.C. Private School Alleging Racist and Disability-Based Harassment

    Media Contact: Nicole Funaro | nfunaro@publicjustice.net WASHINGTON, D.C. — A student, “John Doe,” and his mother, “Jane Doe,” have filed a civil rights lawsuit against a Washington, D.C. private school, St. Anselm’s Abbey School. The lawsuit challenges the School’s failure to protect John Doe from daily harassment to which he was subjected based on his…

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  • Youth Plaintiffs Seek Emergency Court Order to Halt Trump’s Fossil Fuel Executive Orders

    Media Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Andrea Rodgers, Senior Litigation Attorney, 206.696.2851, andrea@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Comms. Associate Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, nfunaro@publicjustice.net Twenty-two young Americans move to block sweeping federal actions they say threaten their rights, health, and futures   Butte, MT— On No Kings Day, as people…

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  • Public Justice Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Luke Davis, et al.

    Today, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision dismissing as improvidently granted Labcorp v. Davis, Public Justice released the following statement: The U.S. Supreme Court correctly recognized that it could not reach the merits in this case. This dismissal allows longstanding jurisprudence recognizing the appropriate framework for considering Article III standing in class actions…

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  • Faith Leaders, Detained People, and Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit in California Challenging Riverside County’s Bail Process

    Riverside County, Calif. — On May 26, 2025, individuals detained in Riverside County jails filed a class action lawsuit challenging Riverside County’s cash-based jailing of individuals between their arrest and first court hearing, as well as Riverside County’s unnecessary delay of that hearing. Rabbi David Lazar and Reverend Jane Quandt chose to join this lawsuit because…

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  • 22 Youth Sue Donald Trump Over Executive Orders That Escalate Climate Crisis

    Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Andrea Rodgers, Senior Litigation Attorney, 206.696.2851, andrea@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Comms. Associate Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, nfunaro@publicjustice.net Butte, MT— Twenty-two young Americans filed Lighthiser v. Trump in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana—a constitutional right to life case that directly challenges…

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  • Court Accountability Advocate Files Motion in Abrego Garcia Case To Ensure Public Access to Hearings

    For Immediate Release May 12, 2025 Contact: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice nfunaro@publicjustice.net Gabe Roth, Fix the Court gabe@fixthecourt.com | 202-780-4990 Greenbelt, MD – Fix the Court has filed a motion to intervene in Abrego Garcia v. Noem to ensure the public has remote access to hearings in this important case. Fix the Court is a…

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  • Families and victim advocates file lawsuit against U.S. Department of Education for gutting Office for Civil Rights 

    Families and victim rights advocates Victim Rights Law Center and other individuals, represented by Public Justice and pro bono co-counsel, have filed a lawsuit to challenge the Trump Administration’s decision to undermine the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) by imposing a massive reduction in force that cut half of the OCR’s staff and closed half its regional offices. The move closed a major…

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  • Lawsuit Aims to Clean Up Toxic Coal Ash Pollution in Pennsylvania

    Arsenic Threatens Susquehanna River, Human Health   HARRISBURG, Pa.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued Talen Energy Corporation and Brunner Island, LLC today for failing to control toxic coal ash pollution risks from a storage impoundment at their mixed coal- and natural gas-fired power plant on the banks of the Susquehanna River in York Haven,…

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