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September 9, 2014 In Updates

Court Approves $1.25 Million Settlement for Family of Deceased Prisoner Francisco Castaneda

Francisco Castaneda Settlement is with two California medical employees; family’s total recovery in case is $3.2 million. A federal judge in Los Angeles yesterday approved a $1.25 million settlement in the long-running case filed by the family of the late Francisco Castaneda against two California…

August 28, 2014 In Updates Consumers' Rights

Court Determining Issue of Tribal Immunity in Payday Loan “Rent-a-Tribe” Case

Andrea Felts Image via KipMalone.com. By Aidan O’Shea Communications Specialist A years-long fight to win justice for consumers who say they were victimized by online payday lenders now hinges on a strange-seeming question: What makes a business part of a sovereign Native American tribe? A…

August 18, 2014 In Updates

Public Justice Board Member Daryl Parks Representing the Family of Mike Brown

Parks and partner Benjamin Crump say autopsy confirms Brown’s attempt to surrender Daryl D. Parks, a Florida litigator who specializes in civil rights, personal injury, and wrongful death cases, and a member of Public Justice’s Board of Directors, is currently helping the family of Mike…

August 15, 2014 In Updates

Court Orders Defendant in Guardrail Whistleblower Case to Show Why Records Should Remain Sealed

An image from the Harman v. Trinity complaint. In United States ex rel. Harman v. Trinity, a federal whistleblower case involving dangerously defective highway guardrails, the court has ordered Trinity Industries, Inc. to show why records in the case should remain sealed from public view after the…

August 7, 2014 In Updates

Slate Story on Obama’s Federal Worker Rules

photo credit: Talk Radio News Service via photopin cc In what Executive Director Paul Bland considers “one of the most important positive steps for civil rights in the last 20 years,” President Obama has ordered that corporations who receive federal contracts worth more than $1 million…

August 2, 2014 In Updates

Public Justice’s Sarah Belton Applauds NLRB Franchise Ruling in the New York Times

photo credit: Steve Rhodes via photopin cc Read Cartwright-Baron Attorney Sarah Belton‘s New York Times letter to the editor on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision on corporations being responsible for workers’ rights: McDonald’s Labor Ruling Tuesday’s decision of the National Labor Relations Board is a…

August 1, 2014 In Updates

Karen Bartlett Receives Public Justice’s new Illuminating Injustice Award

Public Justice recognized Karen Bartlett of New Hampshire as the recipient of its new Illuminating Injustice Award and presented her with a $25,000 award at its Gala and Awards Ceremony Sunday. “As children, we dream of growing up to be the hero, the good guys,”…

August 1, 2014 In Updates

Paul Bland: New Obama Order "Ends Corporate Immunity" for Federal Contractors

Public Justice Executive Director Paul Bland talks to the Real News about Obama’s new executive order, which will end the practice of corporate-paid arbitrators settling discrimination suits.

July 28, 2014 In Updates

Attorneys Who Won Landmark Lead Paint Judgment and Cleanup Named Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year

Members of the team accept the 2014 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award at the Annual Gala. >>>Watch the video on the case. The attorneys who successfully fought for lead paint cleanup in People of California v. Atlantic Richfield were named Sunday as Public Justice’s…

July 7, 2014 In Updates

Fight Against Deceptive Lending in Michigan To Continue

Motion for arbitration denied; Plaintiffs paid exorbitant interest due to hidden provision Thomas Hawk via photopin cc By Aidan O’Shea Communications Specialist When Eboree Larkin, a 25-year-old single mother, accepted a 25 percent Annual Percentage Rate on her used-car payments, she expected the APR to be just that:…