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Image courtesy Jason Comely on Flickr. Main page image E. 38th St and Mass Ave. by stallio, CC by 2.0 By Sarah Belton Cartwright-Baron Attorney We’re emerging from a summer where payday lending was the topic of a terrific rant by John Oliver and a Shark…
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…
By Leah Nicholls, Staff Attorney Leslie Brueckner, Senior Attorney Today we have both good news and bad news about our motion to unseal the court records in Harman v. Trinity, a federal whistleblower case involving defective highway guardrails. First, the good news: In response to our…
photo credit: Farm Sanctuary via photopin cc Federal Court Denies Idaho’s Effort to Dismiss Challenge By Leslie Brueckner Senior Attorney Huge breaking news: We just received word that a federal district court in Idaho has denied the state’s motion to dismiss our constitutional challenge to…
photo credit: Socially Responsible Agricultural Project via photopin cc By Leslie Brueckner Senior Attorney As if Ag-Gag laws weren’t bad enough, Idaho’s dairy industry just tried to make their practices even more secret by blocking media access to factory farms. If you’ve been reading my…
By Jessica Culpepper, Food Safety and Health Attorney Corral on west end of facility, with close up of manure. Photo obtained through a records request from the CA water board. Residents in a Helendale, Calif., community finally had their voices heard when district court Judge Jesus…
photo credit: International Transport Workers’ Federation via photopin cc By Leah Nicholls Kazan-Budd Attorney If you thought that the FedEx driver who delivered a package to your doorstep was an employee of FedEx, it turns out that you were right. And FedEx was wrong. Yesterday,…
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…
2014-08-25 14.01 Proposed Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from Public Justice on Vimeo. Above is a full video of our webinar on Proposed Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. A .PDF of the slides from the webinar is available here….
