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August 7, 2014 In Blog

Safer Coal Ash Disposal Drives Closure of Power Plant in West Virginia

photo credit: The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy via photopin cc The true cost of coal-fired power plants is more than businesses can bear By Richard Webster Staff Attorney An alliance of West Virginia environmental groups represented by Public Justice and allies recently settled with…

August 4, 2014 In Blog

Court Overturns Florida’s Ban on Same-Sex Marriage to Allow Woman to Dissolve Civil Union

Photo credit: OZinOH via photopin cc By Adrian Alvarez Goldberg Robb Attorney A Florida judge’s ruling that the state’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution is the third order of its kind to come out in less than a month. But…

August 2, 2014 In Updates

Public Justice’s Sarah Belton Applauds NLRB Franchise Ruling in the New York Times

photo credit: Steve Rhodes via photopin cc Read Cartwright-Baron Attorney Sarah Belton‘s New York Times letter to the editor on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision on corporations being responsible for workers’ rights: McDonald’s Labor Ruling Tuesday’s decision of the National Labor Relations Board is a…

August 1, 2014 In Updates

Karen Bartlett Receives Public Justice’s new Illuminating Injustice Award

Public Justice recognized Karen Bartlett of New Hampshire as the recipient of its new Illuminating Injustice Award and presented her with a $25,000 award at its Gala and Awards Ceremony Sunday. “As children, we dream of growing up to be the hero, the good guys,”…

August 1, 2014 In Updates

Paul Bland: New Obama Order "Ends Corporate Immunity" for Federal Contractors

Public Justice Executive Director Paul Bland talks to the Real News about Obama’s new executive order, which will end the practice of corporate-paid arbitrators settling discrimination suits.

July 30, 2014 In Blog

UPDATED: Obama Order Single Most Important Step for Civil Rights in 20+ Years

Photo via Mark Blacknell on Flickr Major news outlets are reporting that President Obama is preparing to sign an executive order providing that corporations who receive federal contracts worth more than $1 million may not require their workers to submit to forced arbitration clauses for…

July 29, 2014 In Blog

Consumers Win with Court Ruling on Meat Labels

By Jessica Culpepper Food Safety and Health Attorney The DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a hugely important opinion today in American Meat Institute v. United States Dep’t of Agriculture, upholding the USDA’s Country of Origin Labeling rule requiring increased specificity regarding where the meat…

July 28, 2014 In Updates

Attorneys Who Won Landmark Lead Paint Judgment and Cleanup Named Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year

Members of the team accept the 2014 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award at the Annual Gala. >>>Watch the video on the case. The attorneys who successfully fought for lead paint cleanup in People of California v. Atlantic Richfield were named Sunday as Public Justice’s…

July 21, 2014 In Blog

What “Greedy” Trial Lawyers and “Frivolous” Litigation Do

autumnal_hedge via photopin cc By Arthur BryantChairman Corporate America loves to trash trial lawyers because trial lawyers hold them accountable – when they break the law, cheat people, sell defective products, discriminate, mistreat workers, poison the water and air or maximize profit over safety and…

July 18, 2014 In Blog

Can “Pregnancy Blind” Company Policies Constitute Pregnancy Discrimination? U.S. Supreme Court to Decide.

Image via Tuckner Sipser By Adrian Alvarez Goldberg-Robb Attorney Does United Parcel Services discriminate against a pregnant worker when it refuses to assign her to “light duty” while she’s pregnant, but assigns light duty to a worker who breaks his arm on the job? This…