COVID Resource Table of Contents
Public Justice’s 2020 Trial Lawyer of the Year award was awarded to the legal team – also finalists for the 2019 award – who took on factory farms ruining the quality of life of low-income communities of color. The award was presented on the evening…
White paper about operation of online courts during COVID-19, covering topics like the platforms courts are using to conduct remote proceedings, issues presented, emerging technologies, the digital divide, and best practices.
Type of Order: Remote Proceedings
Plaintiff’s brief opposing application to continue trial, including extensive exhibit of resources from around the country showing how other court systems have accomplished trials during the pandemic, including court orders, news articles, and schematics of courtroom setups.
Type of Order: Remote Proceedings
Denying pro se attorney-plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration where plaintiff sought to force in-person depositions instead of moving forward with remote depositions, finding, among other things, that 6-foot social distancing within deposition room did not solve issues around use of common spaces and travel to/from in-person…
Type of Order: Depositions
By Stevie Glaberson Staff Attorney The COVID-19 pandemic has created a domino effect of unanticipated changes to our country’s systems, and this applies to the legal field as much as any other. Recognizing the danger that an in-person administration of the bar exam poses, states across…
The court held that the Montgomery Municipal Court “engaged in a systemic practice of jailing traffic offenders for failing to pay fines without inquiring into their ability to pay” and “deprived offenders of their due process and equal protection rights not to be incarcerated for their poverty”—and that there is sufficient evidence to hold both JCS and the City liable for the violations.
By Stevie Glaberson Staff Attorney Public Justice has long fought against unnecessary secrecy in court. As so many of our cases have shown, court secrecy enables harassment and discrimination and, in some cases, even kills. Nowhere is court secrecy more dangerous than in medical products…
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – with an independent director that can’t be fired by the president – as unconstitutional. Public Justice Executive Director Paul Bland had this reaction: “A politically independent Consumer Financial…
The three finalist cases for Public Justice’s 2020 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award include landmark cases taking on the Michigan Department of Corrections on behalf of incarcerated youth survivors of assault, factory farms ruining the quality of life of low-income communities of color, and…