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This is the first lawsuit in Maine under state law for monetary remedies against DHS agents for violating the constitutional […]

Civil rights groups today won an appeal in a federal class action lawsuit that seeks to block the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s office from wrongly extracting money from people before releasing them from jail and from demanding payment under coercive terms. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that plaintiffs are harmed by the jail’s policy of seizing their money, demanding payment, and forcing them to waive all rights to challenge jail fees. 

“Ohio State and 279 of the 280 individual remaining Richard Strauss survivors involved in the pending litigation have reached settlements […]

Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Communications Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, communications@publicjustice.net […]

Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Communications Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist, communications@publicjustice.net […]

Media Contacts: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice Media Relations Strategist, communications@publicjustice.net  Veronica Fowler, ACLU of Iowa Communications Director, veronica.fowler@aclu-ia.org, 515-451-1777 Civil […]

Groups Urge Lawmakers to Reject Enova and OppFi’s National Bank Applications and to Support State and Federal Interest Rate Limits […]

Today, survivors from the three largest lawsuits against The Ohio State University jointly filed a brief regarding which OSU officials […]

April 13, 2026 Media Contacts: Public Justice, communications@publicjustice.net Tamara Marquez, Communications Director, ICIJ, tamara@ic4ij.org Ben Camacho, The Southlander, 562-287-4629, ben.camacho@thesouthlander.com […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2026 Contacts: Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel, 415.786.4825, julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Helen Britto, Communications Director, 925.588.1171, helen@ourchildrenstrust.org […]

PORTLAND – Youth suing the Trump administration are heading back to federal court. On April 13, 2026, youth from across […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Wednesday, April 1, 2026  Contact: Meredith Rogers, Meredith.Rogers@justice.org, (771) 241-9680 Communications@publicjustice.net Joint Amicus Brief Asks the Court […]

  How did you get into this work? And what radicalized or moved you to participate in the area of […]

On his very first day in office, President Trump signed a series of executive orders that will undermine any efforts […]

Meet Charles Moore, a dedicated staff attorney with our Debtors’ Prison Project. Since joining the team in early 2023, Charles […]

“The advice that led me into law school in the first place was that your vocation should lie at the […]

  Tycko & Zavareei LLP’s Public Interest Fellowship is an incredible opportunity for recent law graduates to gain hands-on experience […]

“It’s kind of can’t stop won’t stop, and sometimes, everything’s on fire. But I wouldn’t trade it.”   Meet Leah […]

Shariful Khan is a Skadden Fellow with Public Justice’s Students’ Civil Rights Project. In addition to litigating Title IX and […]

By Tabitha Woodruff, Access to Justice Strategic Outreach Attorney Two societal values so intrinsic to humanity as to make them […]

Dan Snyder joined Public Justice in 2023 as a senior attorney for the Environmental Enforcement Project. He is now the […]

When some Florida restaurants discovered they were being overcharged for underweight poultry deliveries, they took their supplier to court, suspecting […]

By Tabitha Woodruff, A2J Project Outreach Attorney Imagine being caught violating the civil rights of more than 20,000 Americans and […]

By Karen Ocamb For more than four decades, Preston Tisdale, a longtime attorney with Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, has practiced law, fought […]

In a Friend of the Court Brief, Lawmakers State That Only Congress Has the Power To Shutter the CFPB, and […]

Public Justice condemns Donald Trump’s firing of Rohit Chopra, who has served as the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection […]

For Immediate Release: September 16, 2024 Media Contacts: Nicole Funaro, Media Relations Strategist | nfunaro@publicjustice.net Megan Varvais, Access to Justice […]

For Immediate Release: December 14, 2023 Contact: Megan Varvais mvarvais@publicjustice.net Letter Supports CFPB Rulemaking Reining in Big Banks’ Abuse of […]

“We’re beyond proud of our former Access to Justice Co-Director Karla Gilbride and former Board Member Kalpana Kotagal for being […]

Today, in response to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s approval of Senate Bill 365, Public Justice released the following statement:  “Public […]

NEWS for IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 5, 2023 Contacts: Rosemary Shahan, CARS, 530-759-9440 Michael Brooks, Center for Auto Safety, 202-328-7700 x […]

For immediate release: September 26, 2023 Media Contact: Jessica King, jessica.king@sierraclub.org Lucy Sears, lsears@publicjustice.net  Washington, D.C. — Today Sierra Club, Public Justice, and several […]

Public Justice is proud to support the Equality Act (H.R. 5), which was originally introduced in both the House and […]

          For Immediate Release June 7, 2023 Contact: Sean Crowley, 202-495-8520-c, scrowley@compassionandchoices.org Patricia A. González-Portillo, 323-819-0310-c, […]

Public Justice is proud to support the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act (H.R. 2953), which was reintroduced in April […]

Today, in response to Congress’s reintroduction of the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act, Public Justice released the following statement: […]