by Gabriel Hopkins Thornton-Robb Attorney Scott Tucker loves fast cars. That might be why he raced to the bottom as the owner and operator of a payday lending business whose complicated and lopsided repayment plan duped millions of consumers. Now the details of this operation…
Image via CNBC’s Remington Under Fire: The Reckoning. Remington Arms Company – the oldest firearms manufacturer in the country – has known for years that one of its most popular guns has a defect that can cause it to fire without the trigger ever being…
By Leslie Brueckner Senior Attorney The California Supreme Court has just issued a groundbreaking unanimous decision in Quesada v. Herb Thyme Farms, Inc., upholding the rights of consumers to sue a grower – Herb Thyme – for intentionally mislabeling conventionally grown herbs as “organic” and…
Photo via Public Herald on Flickr. Notice to sue sent to companies with extraction methods linked to frequent earthquakes. Public Justice and Sierra Club today warned four companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing in Oklahoma that they must modify their practices or face a citizen lawsuit, citing…
Public Justice Environmental Enforcement Project Director Jim Hecker told a Senate committee yesterday that current federal rules governing stream pollution due to mountaintop removal mining are outdated and must be replaced by rules that “incorporate the best available science” and would successfully prevent “serious, persistent…
An image from last week’s notice letter. By Richard Webster Staff Attorney, Environmental Enforcement Project Until I saw it, it was hard to believe that in the heart of Utah, PacifiCorp, a local power company, was running a fake farm watered with coal ash waste that…
Lee Brown, President, AIEG Arthur Bryant, Chairman, Public Justice The past year was unprecedented in the world of auto safety. The world learned of ignition switches that could fail, causing loss of control and airbag non-deployment; airbags that shoot shrapnel into the occupant compartment when…
photo credit: plastic please via photopin (license) Potential change would open courthouse doors to tens of millions stripped of right to sue By Aidan O’SheaCommunications Specialist On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed rules designed to prevent consumer financial companies from barring consumers’ ability to file, or join, a…
Image via Ian Crowther on Flickr Laws Challenged on First Amendment, Equal Protection Grounds By Aidan O’SheaCommunications Specialist Public Justice and its allies filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging the constitutionality of Wyoming laws that made it illegal for citizens to collect data about the state’s…
Image from the Harman v. Trinity complaint. By Leah M. NichollsStaff Attorney Highway guardrails are big business. And they are also important safety devices: The wrong guardrail design can mean the difference between life and death, between walking away from a car crash and losing…