By Paul Bland Executive Director This post originally appeared on DailyKos, and is republished here with permission. Following his claim that climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese, and his promises to “bring back coal,” many have wondered how President-elect Trump might approach…
By Paul Bland Executive Director It’s bad enough that a ton of corporations require their customers and employees to submit all their legal claims to private arbitration, a secretive system that is rigged against the individual. But to compound the unfairness, a growing number of…
After running and winning in large part based on his pledge to “be an aggressive proponent for defending the economic interests of American workers and farmers on the world stage,” Donald Trump has taken one of his first concrete steps on agriculture policy. It is an early gift to multinational corporations at the expense of United States farmers.
By Leah Nicholls Staff Attorney Today, in Parnell v. CashCall, Inc., the Eleventh Circuit federal court of appeals affirmed what should be obvious: An arbitration agreement that purports to require that the arbitration be conducted by an arbitrator who does not exist can’t be enforced,…
While everyone waits to see how the election changes the Supreme Court, one thing is clear: workers’ rights hang in the balance. The Court is soon going to have to decide whether employers can use mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts to ban—and eliminate—workers’ collective and class actions.
Public Justice has made over 133,000 previously-sealed Remington documents available to the public on a new website, www.remingtondocuments.com. The documents show the company knew for decades the trigger in the Remington Model 700—the most popular bolt-action rifle in America—and a dozen other Remington models could fire when no one pulled it.
We, and many others who work for justice, have won some great victories in recent years to begin to make America fairer. But as Roger Baldwin famously stated, no civil rights victory ever stays won. And so it is today – we cannot take any recent steps forward for granted.
Image via Ning Ham on Flickr By Jennifer Bennett Attorney Last week, we filed an amicus brief in Visa v. Osborn, an important antitrust case pending before the Supreme Court. The story of the case—as alleged in the plaintiffs’ complaints—goes something like this: Long ago…
Image by Adam Fuller via Flickr By Karla Gilbride Staff Attorney Last year, I blogged about how the zombie debt industry preys on consumers by buying up old debts from hospitals and credit card companies for pennies on the dollar, with very little information about whether those…
By Kyra Taylor Fellow On September 30, a federal court in Nevada ordered payday lending mogul Scott Tucker and his affiliated companies to pay $1.3 Billion to the FTC for deceiving consumers about the costs associated with their loans and unlawfully charging them enormous hidden…