Public Justice

May 19, 2014 In Blog

Income Inequality and Access to Justice: Len Schroeter Got it Years Ago

By Arthur BryantChairman Justice lost a great advocate and friend late last month, Len Schroeter. Len was brilliant, passionate, warm, complex, constitutionally resistant to authority (in both senses of the word), and totally committed to justice for all. The Seattle Times obituary only begins to…

May 18, 2014 In Updates

Executive Director Paul Bland Talks to Media Matters for America about Class Actions and Justice

Watch Executive Director Paul Bland discuss his career defending cheated customers, the vital role of class actions in bringing about a just society, and the Roberts Court’s extreme attacks on consumer rights with Media Matters for America in the above video. Read more on the…

May 15, 2014 In Blog

Buyer Beware: “Humanely Raised” Meat and Poultry Might Not Be Cruelty Free

Peter aka anemoneprojectors – camera busted! via photopin cc By Leslie Brueckner Senior Attorney Have you ever paid more for chicken, beef, or pork because the package label said the animal was “humanely” or “sustainably” raised? I know I have. Well guess what? Turns out…

May 7, 2014 In Blog

Top Three Wage-Law Violators Are Fast Food Franchises

Thomas Hawk via photopin cc By Sarah Belton Cartwright-Baron Attorney Subway, McDonald’s, and Dunkin’ Donuts. Each company sells fast food to the public. Each company is doing well financially. And, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor analyzed by CNN Money, they represent…

May 6, 2014 In Blog

Democracy Works Again: Second Company in Two Weeks Drops Threat to Customer Rights

Steve Rhodes via photopin cc By Aidan O’Shea Communications Specialist Another corporation has just noticed you’d like to keep your basic legal rights, please. For the second time in as many weeks, a company’s attempt to rip away a fundamental right from consumers ended after…

May 6, 2014 In Updates

Phonathon Volunteers Use Friendly Competition to Boost Fundraising

By Aidan O’Shea Communications Specialist Together, the two teams of volunteers in this year’s competitive Public Justice Phonathon May 1, the “Rustlers” and the “Rangers”, competed to raise $407,295 and recruited or renewed 285 members, far outpacing their combined goal of $325,000 and 120 new…

May 5, 2014 In Updates

F. Paul Bland, Jr., Named Executive Director of Public Justice

Bland Succeeds Arthur H. Bryant, named Public Justice’s Chairman Washington, DC – Public Justice Foundation’s Board of Directors has unanimously appointed F. Paul Bland, Jr. the new Executive Director of Public Justice. “This organization has successfully been doing public justice for more than 30 years and…

April 30, 2014 In Blog

Stolen Wages: Coming to a Workplace Near You

photo credit: WisconsinJobsNow via photopin cc By Vicky Ni Senior Attorney What do fast-food workers and high-tech workers have in common? Neither have any bargaining power in their workplaces or in their industry, as Pandodaily’s Mark Ames has recently observed. Both have wages stolen from…

April 22, 2014 In Blog

Winning the Fight to Protect Citizens from Sewage Sludge

By Jim Hecker Director, Environmental Enforcement Project A Pennsylvania appeals court has revived a nuisance lawsuit by 34 Pennsylvania residents who claim that the spread of 23 million pounds of sewage sludge on a neighboring farm created a repulsive, nauseating stench similar to that of a…

April 20, 2014 In Blog

Democracy Works: General Mills Drops Forced Arbitration After Outcry from Consumers

By Paul Bland, Senior Attorney@PblandBland Last week, General Mills was the latest corporation to adopt a forced arbitration clause – language that says that its customers can’t sue it or take it to court if they believe the corporation has cheated or injured them, but instead…