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August 12, 2014 In Blog

This Shark Week, Let’s Look Closely at Who’s Preying on Whom

By Sarah Belton, Cartwright-Baron Attorney, and Leslie Bailey, Staff Attorney photo credit: Grey Nurse Sharks by Richard Ling, CC-BY-2.0. One noted impact of the Recession is the widening wealth gap between white families and families of color. This gap didn’t just emerge naturally—at least part of the gap is the…

August 11, 2014 In Blog

Comedian John Oliver Produces Remarkably Strong Piece of Journalism (Albeit Completely Profane) on Payday Lending

August 7, 2014 In Updates

Slate Story on Obama’s Federal Worker Rules

photo credit: Talk Radio News Service via photopin cc In what Executive Director Paul Bland considers “one of the most important positive steps for civil rights in the last 20 years,” President Obama has ordered that corporations who receive federal contracts worth more than $1 million…

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…