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September 4, 2014 In Blog

Court Records in Trinity Guardrail Whistleblower Case May Be Unsealed

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…

September 4, 2014 In Blog

Green Light to Constitutional Challenge to Idaho Ag-Gag Law

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…

September 2, 2014 In Blog

Ag Gag On Steroids – Idaho Dairies Urged to Block Media Access To Factory Farms

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…

August 29, 2014 In Blog

Contaminated Community Will Get its Day in Court

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…

August 28, 2014 In Blog

Good News for Workers: Ninth Circuit Holds that FedEx Drivers Are Employees

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,…

August 28, 2014 In Updates Consumers' Rights

Court Determining Issue of Tribal Immunity in Payday Loan “Rent-a-Tribe” Case

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…

August 25, 2014 In Blog

Watch Today’s Webinar on Proposed Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

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….

August 18, 2014 In Updates

Public Justice Board Member Daryl Parks Representing the Family of Mike Brown

Parks and partner Benjamin Crump say autopsy confirms Brown’s attempt to surrender Daryl D. Parks, a Florida litigator who specializes in civil rights, personal injury, and wrongful death cases, and a member of Public Justice’s Board of Directors, is currently helping the family of Mike…

August 15, 2014 In Blog

It Shouldn’t Be a Secret When Products Are Unsafe

Am image from the Harman complaint. By Leah Nicholls, Staff Attorney, and Leslie Brueckner, Senior Attorney We’ve all heard by now about how hard General Motors worked to hide the problems with its ignition – and how that secrecy killed and injured a lot of people. It…

August 15, 2014 In Updates

Court Orders Defendant in Guardrail Whistleblower Case to Show Why Records Should Remain Sealed

An image from the Harman v. Trinity complaint. In United States ex rel. Harman v. Trinity, a federal whistleblower case involving dangerously defective highway guardrails, the court has ordered Trinity Industries, Inc. to show why records in the case should remain sealed from public view after the…