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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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  • Court Holds Republic Services Liable for 419 Clean Water Act Violations at Modern Landfill

    Contact: Ted Evgeniadis, Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper, 717-478-1780, Ted@lowsusriverkeeper.org Jim Hecker, Public Justice, 202-861-5225, jhecker@publicjustice.net Steve Harvey Steve Harvey Law,  215-438-6600,  steve@steveharveylaw.com Nicole Funaro, Public Justice, 203-435-1722, nfunaro@publicjustice.net On Monday, a court ruled in Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association’s favor that Republic Services’ Modern Landfill violated the federal Clean Water Act 419 times from July 2019 through…

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  • 202 Members of Congress Ask the Court to Stop Trump Administration’s Destruction of USAID, Warn of Devastating Consequences for National Security

    In a Friend of the Court Brief, Lawmakers State That Only Congress Has the Power To Shutter the USAID, and Administration Knows Its Actions Violate the Law   FOR IMMEDATE RELEASE MARCH 31, 2025  Contact: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice nfunaro@publicjustice.net Washington, DC – Calling the Trump administration’s attacks on the United States Agency for International…

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  • Lawsuit Challenges Eugene Water and Electric Board for Violating Endangered Species Act

    Advocates Sue to Address Harm to Bull Trout and Chinook Salmon   Media Contacts: Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, bethany@cascwild.org 503.327.4923 John Persell, Oregon Wild, jp@oregonwild.org 503.896.6472 Jennifer Fairbrother, Native Fish Society, jennifer@nativefishsociety.org 541.602.0696 Hannah Goldblatt, Advocates for the West, hgoldblatt@advocateswest.org 503.506.5131 Nicole Funaro, Public Justice, nfunaro@publicjustice.net Lindsey Hutchinson, Willamette Riverkeeper, lindsey@willametteriverkeeper.org 503.223.6418 Advocates for the…

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  • WA Dept. of Ecology again ordered to rewrite industrial dairy permits to better safeguard public health, waterways, aquifers, ecosystems

    Yesterday, in response to a challenge from community and conservation groups, the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board ordered the Department of Ecology to rewrite pollution discharge permits for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to better protect water resources and public health. Earlier, a unanimous 2021 Washington Court of Appeals decision required the Department of…

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