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May 27, 2015 In Blog

Paul Bland on HuffingtonPost: Obama Administration Implements Major Advance for Civil Rights

Now we know why the corporate lobby’s favorite lawmakers filibustered the nomination of our fantastic Labor Secretary, Tom Perez, for so long. He’s actually committed to sticking up for workers. Earlier today, the Department of Labor, along with federal procurement agencies, announced guidance and regulations…

May 21, 2015 In Blog

We’re With John Oliver

BY David Muraskin Food Safety & Health Attorney Last Sunday, HBO’s John Oliver demonstrated how the corporate juggernauts that control our animal agriculture (and thereby our food) not only exploit workers, but silence their critics through their influence over our representatives in Washington. As Oliver…

May 15, 2015 In Blog

Holding Back the Steamroller

By Gabriel HopkinsThornton-Robb Attorney For many plaintiff-side lawyers, the relentless restriction of access to the civil justice system by American judges has been at once depressing, bewildering, and infuriating. The most prominent example of this is, of course, binding pre-dispute arbitration. As the eminent procedure scholar…

May 13, 2015 In Blog

Public Justice Joins the Battle Against Big Tobacco

By Leslie Brueckner Senior Attorney For decades, tobacco companies avoided paying any damages to their victims by arguing that consumers assumed the risk of cancer when they decided to smoke cigarettes. That argument went up in smoke when it was discovered that cigarette companies consciously manipulated…

May 13, 2015 In Blog

Deflategate: What Tom Brady’s Punishment Says About the NFL’s Views on Violence Against Women

BY Adele KimmelSenior Attorney What’s more deflated: the footballs in the AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts, or the NFL’s punishment for domestic violence? I’ll give you a hint. It isn’t the footballs. The NFL gave Patriots quarterback Tom…

May 13, 2015 In Blog

Remembering Mike McIntosh: The Earth Loses a Great Champion

BY Arthur BryantChairman The Earth lost one of its most dedicated, generous and creative advocates on May 7: Michael McIntosh passed away. Mike’s significance and accomplishments are difficult to overstate. Public Justice, its Environmental Enforcement Project, and many of the leading environmental organizations in the…

May 11, 2015 In Updates

Settlement with Factory Farm to Ensure Clean Water for Washington Community

An image from the Ericksen Report, submitted by the plaintiffs in this case. Public Justice and its allies today secured settlements with four industrial mega-dairies in rural Washington responsible for contaminating groundwater. The settlement will ensure clean drinking water for the surrounding community. Four Washington…

May 8, 2015 In Blog

Read Paul Bland’s Huffington Post Column on States’ Rights Hypocrisy

Photo via Gerladbrazell on Flickr Talk about cognitive dissonance. On the home page of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA)’s home page is a video talking about the importance of “states’ rights.” The Attorney General of Georgia even opines in the same piece that expansion…

April 29, 2015 In Blog

One Lawmaker’s Unprecedented Legislation to Allow Corporate America to Run Wild

Thurgood Marshall statue photo via Douglas Earl on Flickr By

April 27, 2015 In Blog

Morris Dees: With Justice for All in a Changing America

By Arthur BryantChairman The 2015 Dean A. Robb Public Interest Lecture at Wayne State University Law School by Morris Dees, held April 13, was our most successful yet. Adding to the evening’s excitement were the introductory remarks by a Public Justice Founder and past president,…