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…
By Camika Shelby When my son, Nigel, took his own life after being bullied and harassed at school simply because he had the courage to be himself, I was devastated. Nigel was full of light and full of joy. When that light was extinguished, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to go on. But all…
For Immediate Release: April 4, 2023 Plaintiffs Have Stated Claims for Deliberate Indifference to Sexual Harassment & Retaliation, Violations of Massachusetts Civil Rights Laws, Court Rules April 4, BOSTON – On March 31, 2023, Magistrate Judge Judith Dein of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts affirmed that the claims of…
For Immediate Release: March 29, 2023 Media Contact: Lucy Sears, lsears@publicjustice.net HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA – The family of Nigel Shelby, a Black, openly gay teenager who died by suicide after experiencing severe, unchecked anti-gay harassment and race discrimination while attending Alabama’s Huntsville High School, reached a settlement with the Huntsville City Board of Education, concluding the federal…