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October 25, 2012 In Updates

Groups Poised to Sue Yakima Valley Farms Responsible for Public Hazards

The Center for Food Safety and the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) — both represented by Public Justice — warned four major Yakima Valley (Ore.) factory farms that they will take them to federal court unless, in the next 90 days, the…

October 22, 2012 In Blog

A consumer reporter who really gets it

By Paul Bland, Senior Attorney This weekend we wrapped up our fall board meetings in Cleveland, the home city of board president Jack Landskroner. While in Cleveland, Jack and I spent some very worthwhile time talking arbitration and consumers’ rights issues with Sheryl Harris, a…

September 26, 2012 In Updates

Citizens Group in Puerto Rico Poised to Sue Energy Giant AES Corp. for Illegal Coal Ash Dumping

A group of Puerto Rican citizens says it will take AES Corporation to federal court for illegally dumping highly toxic waste from its Guayama coal-fired power plant unless the energy giant meets the group’s demands, which include a call for an end to AES’ illicit…

September 5, 2012 In Updates

Federal Court Unseals Remington Rifle Court Documents

A federal district court in Montana has ruled that the public should have access to court documents that had been sealed 17 years ago in Aleksich v. Remington, a case charging that defects in a popular Remington rifle caused the rifle to fire without anyone…

August 24, 2012 In Blog

Positive ruling late last week from New Mexico Supreme Court

By Amy Radon, Goldberg Attorney By now you’ve probably seen the decision that was handed down last week in the Felts case. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that two Internet payday lenders can’t force our client into arbitration. Andrea Felts, a high school administrator,…

August 23, 2012 In News Release

New Mexico Supreme Court Rules Payday Lenders Cannot Force Consumer into Arbitration with Substitute Arbitrator

August 23, 2012 In Updates

Fort Valley State University Reinstates Women’s Volleyball Team to Avoid Title IX Suit

Fort Valley State University has agreed to reinstate its women’s volleyball team to avoid a threatened sex discrimination lawsuit by Public Justice. The lawsuit would have charged FVSU with violating Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination by educational institutions that receive federal…

August 23, 2012 In Updates

Developments in Environmental Enforcement Project & Iqbal Project

In Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. FirstEnergy, Public Justice’s EEP teamed up with the Environmental Integrity Project to pressure FirstEnergy, the owner of Little Blue Run coal ash impoundment (the nation’s largest), to agree to shut down Little Blue Run by 2016, and, in the meantime,…

August 23, 2012 In Updates

New Mexico Supreme Court Rules Payday Lenders Cannot Force Consumer into Arbitration with Substitute Arbitrator

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an attempt by two Internet payday lenders to force a consumer to take her claims against the lenders before an arbitrator rather than a court of law. The full opinion is available here: http://www.publicjustice.net/sites/default/files/downloads/FeltsvCLKOpinion_23Aug2012.pdf Public Justice represented…

August 16, 2012 In News Release