Updates

June 23, 2022 In Updates

Public Justice’s Statement in Response to the U.S. Department of Education’s Proposed Title IX Regulations

We’re pleased to see that the U.S. Department of Education has finally released its proposed Title IX regulations. If adopted after the coming notice and comment period, these regulations would undo the Trump administration’s efforts to gut Title IX’s protections for student survivors of sexual…

June 9, 2022 In Updates

Public Justice Honors Arthur Bryant with Inaugural Legacy Award

Public Justice is excited to announce that we will be honoring Arthur Bryant with our first-ever Legacy Award for the many years of service as Attorney, Executive Director, and Chairman of Public Justice (originally Trial Lawyers for PublicJustice/TLPJ). In 1984, Arthur was hired as the sole…

June 7, 2022 In Updates

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton to Receive Public Justice’s 2022 Champion of Justice Award

We’re excited to announce that Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive our 2022 Champion of Justice Award! “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.” With those words, delivered to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, then-First Lady…

May 31, 2022 In Updates

Wenceslaus “June” Provost Jr. and Angie Provost to receive 2022 Illuminating Injustice Award

Wenceslaus “June” Provost Jr., a fourth-generation sugarcane farmer, and Angie Provost of Provost Farm will receive Public Justice’s 2022 Illuminating Injustice Award. Provost Farm, a Black-owned, 5,000-acre farm under the management of Wenceslaus “June” Provost Jr., and his wife, Angie, went from being one of the…

May 31, 2022 In Updates

Public Justice Announces Finalists for 2022 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award

We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2022 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award! The TLOY Award celebrates and recognizes the accomplishments of an attorney or team of attorneys working on behalf of individuals and groups that have suffered grave injustice or abuse. This…

May 27, 2022 In Updates

Nominations Open for Huntington Hero Award

Public Justice is a public interest legal advocacy organization that takes on the biggest systemic threats to justice of our time—abusive corporate power and predatory practices, the assault on civil rights and liberties, and the destruction of the earth’s sustainability. We connect high-impact litigation with…

May 23, 2022 In Press Releases, Updates Access to Justice

Public Justice Statement on Supreme Court Win in ‘Morgan v. Sundance’

For immediate release: May 23, 2022 Contact: Lucy Sears, Communications Director lsears@publicjustice.net Public Justice Statement on Supreme Court Win in ‘Morgan v. Sundance‘ Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in our case, Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., ruling unanimously in favor of our client Robyn Morgan….

March 17, 2022 In Updates Access to Justice, Forced Arbitration

Public Justice Statement Applauding House Passage of the FAIR Act

In response to the House of Representatives’ passage of the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act (H.R. 963) today, Public Justice released the following statement: Today’s bipartisan vote by the House to end forced arbitration reflects a growing realization among voters that these agreements are…

February 21, 2022 In Updates Students' Civil Rights Project

Public Justice Statement Supporting Abortion Access for All

The Supreme Court has made a series of dangerous decisions that appear to be aimed at undoing the constitutional right to abortion. If the Court continues in its current direction, Roe v. Wade will be completely undermined – or even explicitly overturned – in the…

January 17, 2022 In Updates

Public Justice Statement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Today, all of us at Public Justice honor and reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sixty-five years ago, Dr. King delivered a speech at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in front of 25,0000 civil rights…