Media contacts: Nicole Funaro | Public Justice | nfunaro@publicjustice.net Madhvi Venkatraman | Civil Rights Corps | media@civilrightscorps.org California Superior Court overruled the County Defendants’ demurrer to the complaint Riverside County, CA — On Oct. 1, a judge denied two demurrers to a complaint challenging the county’s cash-based jailing of individuals between their arrest and…
Media contact: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice, nfunaro@publicjustice.net BOSTON — Judge Angel Kelley on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of an IBM worker who was let go because of his age along with about 20,000 other workers as part of discriminatory mass layoffs. Judge Kelley held that his age…
All Democrats on Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee—the committees that oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—have urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rehear a case challenging the Trump Administration’s attacks on the CFPB. The members of Congress joining the amicus brief are represented by Public…
Joint statement on the First Circuit’s decision to stay the injunction in the U.S. Department of Education lawsuit to restore Office of Civil Rights staff: “We are disappointed in the First Circuit’s decision, which removes an important check on the government’s plan to gut the Office of Civil Rights while the case goes forward and…
Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Comms. Associate Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, nfunaro@publicjustice.net Economists, public health professionals, and renewable energy leaders warn of far-reaching dangers posed by executive orders that advance fossil fuels and suppress renewables MISSOULA, M.T. — On the second day of the historic…
Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Comms. Associate Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, 203.435.1722, nfunaro@publicjustice.net First-ever live hearing in a federal constitutional climate case led by youth begins in Missoula, Montana MISSOULA, M.T. — This morning, 22 young Americans began presenting live testimony in Lighthiser v. Trump, a…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2025 MEDIA CONTACTS Public Justice, nfunaro@publicjustice.net ACLU of Arizona, media@acluaz.org First Amendment Clinic, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, firstamendmentclinic@asu.edu Glendale, Ariz. – On September 9, the Glendale City Council voted to repeal the ordinances (022-66, 022-67, and 023-04) that criminalized panhandling throughout the city, citing our…
Public Justice’s statement in response to the Supreme Court’s denial of South Carolina’s application for a stay of a Fourth Circuit injunction allowing a transgender ninth-grader to use school restrooms consistent with his gender identity. “Today’s decision from the Supreme Court reaffirms what we all know to be true: Contrary to South Carolina’s insistence, trans…
Public Justice’s statement in response to South Carolina’s request that the Supreme Court of the United States intervene in a transgender student’s appeal: “South Carolina wants the Supreme Court to take the extraordinary remedy of intervening in an ongoing lower court appeal – all because the state wants to stop one ninth grader from using…