Lexington, Ky. — A national legal advocacy organization has asked to intervene in a federal lawsuit to defend federal protections for pregnant and postpartum students in light of the new administration’s signals that it no longer intends to do so. Public Justice, BraunHagey & Borden LLP, and Pillersdorf Law Offices represent A Better Balance, which…
This month, President Trump passed a new executive order, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, in an attempt to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams. This order might seem like it upends or dismantles critical legal protections for LGBTQ+ students, but that power is a smokescreen. An executive order cannot undo students’…
Following a successful appeal, the “John Doe” at the center of a lawsuit against North Carolina State University will see his Title IX case concerning sexual abuse of male student athletes at North Carolina State University move forward. The sex discrimination lawsuit — John Doe 2 v. North Carolina State University — is one of…
National non-profit legal advocacy organization Public Justice, along with the law firms Hutchinson Black and Cook LLC and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, has revived a sexual assault lawsuit under New York’s Child Victims Act brought by American model Carré Otis. Despite the defendant’s dogged attempts to get the case thrown out…
Public Justice, a national non-profit legal advocacy organization, along with civil rights law firm Wardenski P.C. and Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC, has filed a class action lawsuit in South Carolina federal court on behalf of a transgender teenager, a proposed class of transgender public school students in South Carolina, and social justice organization…
Public Justice, a national non-profit legal advocacy organization, has filed an amicus brief supporting Los Angeles Sparks player Dearica Hamby in her suit against the WNBA. The lawsuit alleges her former team, the Las Vegas Aces, illegally traded Ms. Hamby to the Sparks because she was pregnant, and that the WNBA retaliated against her for…
Public Justice Media Contact: Nicole Funaro nfunaro@publicjustice.net Court Grants Plaintiffs Access to Witness Interviews Referenced in Perkins Coie Report on OSU Strauss Abuse Investigation Washington, D.C. , May 9, 2024 – Yesterday, the federal court for the Southern District of Ohio granted plaintiffs’ request that Perkins Coie – the investigators who produced a report detailing…
Shariful Khan is a Skadden Fellow with Public Justice’s Students’ Civil Rights Project. In addition to litigating Title IX and VI cases with the SCRP team, Shariful’s fellowship focuses on drawing out the link and overlap between racial harassment and discriminatory discipline in academic environments. He recently sat with Public Justice’s Membership Coordinator Nikki Duffney…
For Immediate Release: September 25, 2023 Contact: Lucy Sears lsears@publicjustice.net In a sweeping victory for student survivors across the country, the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that schools may be liable under Title IX for causing students to be sexually harassed in off-campus student residences. The Court ruled in favor of Mackenzie Brown, who…