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January 10, 2013 In Updates

Public Justice Challenges NRC at Hearing Over Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant

Concern about nuclear plant safety has only gotten more intense due to Hurricane Sandy. Public Justice has been challenging the relicensing of Oyster Creek Nuclear Reactor since 2010. But, in the aftermath of Sandy, that challenge has taken on greater importance. Oyster Creek is a…

December 10, 2012 In News Release

Federal Court Rules Pine Bush Central School District Officials May be Sued for Failing to Protect Jewish Students from Severe Bullying

December 7, 2012 In Updates

Federal Court Rules Pine Bush Central School District Officials May be Sued for Failing to Protect Jewish Students from Severe Bullying

A federal magistrate judge ruled late last week that the Superintendent of New York’s Pine Bush Central School District, as well as a school principal and two assistant principals, may be sued for failing to protect five current and former students from pervasive anti-Semitic bullying…

November 30, 2012 In News Release

Groups Threaten to Sue PPG Industries for Polluting Ohio River and Violating Clean Water Act

November 30, 2012 In News Release

Hurricane Aftermath Shows that Poor, Aged, Disabled Would be Last Served in Event of Accident at 40-year-old N.Y. Nuclear Plant

November 30, 2012 In News Release

Public Justice Argues Critical Victims’ Rights Case Before U.S. Supreme Court

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…