By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney Lawyer bashing is nearly a national sport. But people seem to have forgotten how often civil litigation has led to important social change. And civil litigation is just as important today as it was when a courageous group of individuals…
Public Justice Senior Attorney Paul Bland takes a look at the deeply flawed results of Mayer Brown’s “empirical analysis” attacking all class actions. Particularly striking, Paul explains, is the timing of this P.R. document — arriving the exact day as the Congressionally mandated study by…
By Leah Nicholls, Kazan-Budd Attorney Last week, a unanimous DC federal appellate court upheld an Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) regulation clarifying that its regulations about labeling used for chemicals in the workplace do not preempt state-law failure-to-warn claims. In other words, companies can’t…
By Leslie Brueckner, Senior Attorney The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just punted on what is arguably the scariest public-health crisis of our times: the overuse of antibiotics in the animal industry. In an earlier blog, we explained that over 80% of all the…
By Leslie Brueckner, Senior Attorney The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just punted on what is arguably the scariest public-health crisis of our times: the overuse of antibiotics in the animal industry. In an earlier blog, we explained that over 80% of all the…
By Jessica Culpepper, Food Safety & Health Attorney As an organization that stands up for transparency and calling an industry on its wrongful practices, Public Justice has been 100% behind the fight against ag-gag laws. Ag-gag laws, in case you haven’t heard, are laws that…
By Sarah Belton, Staff Attorney In 2002 a woman named Shirley Ellis filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that her employer, Costco Wholesale Corporation, denied her a promotion from assistant manager to store manager because she was female. After she filed her…
Public Justice argued on behalf of the beneficiary By Sarah Jones ERISA does not prohibit benefits plans from starting the clock running on an employee’s benefits lawsuit before that lawsuit could be filed in court, the U.S. Supreme Court held this week, departing from…
By Matt Wessler, Staff Attorney Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life Insurance Co., a case that has generated less attention than almost any other this term. That’s probably because the case combined two of the least exciting areas of the law—statutes…
By Spencer Wilson, Brayton-Thornton Attorney It is a sad day when the state of the law forces judges to openly apologize for the unfairness of their decisions. But that is exactly what happened last week when a Pennsylvania federal judge refused to let a group…
