What’s at Stake Corporations are trying to make it harder and harder for people to bring class actions against them. When people band together through a class action to sue a corporation that has broken the law and harmed them, lawsuits that would otherwise be too expensive or too difficult to bring on an individual…
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Traditionally, a person who has experienced the violation of a statute has standing to bring a claim for that violation. For example, the California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (ICRAA) says that people can bring claims when an employer…
What’s at Stake Some states have passed “tort reform” laws designed to make it harder to bring certain kinds of state law claims. Delaware is one of those states. This U.S. Supreme Court case is about whether a federal court hearing a case about violations of Delaware law has to follow the procedural “tort reform”…
What’s at Stake Corporations should not be allowed to use contracts about one thing to prevent lawsuits about a totally different thing, nor should they be allowed to use contracts they were never part of in the first place to avoid consequences for breaking the law. Background Ramona Milam was threatened by her mortgage servicer,…
What’s at Stake Corporations that are in the middle of employment lawsuits should not be able get out of litigation by imposing new fine print terms onto the employees that take away their right to sue the employer. Summary In 2022, Bo Avery and his co-workers filed a class action for wage theft against their…
This case is about whether injured investors can hold a publicly traded company accountable for securities fraud when it deliberately violates its duty to disclose material information in securities filings. Macquarie Infrastructure Corp (MIC) allegedly failed to disclose the long-term financial consequences it faced due to pending regulatory changes. The regulatory changes were designed to…
Public Justice is co-counsel in an 11th Circuit appeal of a decision denying certification of a consumer class action on “ascertainability” grounds. The proposed class action concerns hundreds of thousands of consumers who own small refrigerators used in recreational vehicles. According to the plaintiffs, the refrigerators start to corrode as soon as they are installed,…
This case is a class action on behalf of, possibly, millions of parents at more than 30,000 schools. alleging that Heartland Payment Systems—a private company that contracts with school districts to allow parents to pay for their children’s school lunches and other school fees online—defrauded parents into believing that the extra fees Heartland charges were…
Public Justice’s Leslie Brueckner is co-lead counsel in this California Supreme Court appeal that concerned an issue of enormous importance to consumers and tort victims throughout the State: whether the “economic-loss rule” precludes recovery of purely economic damages arising out one of the most serious environmental disasters in California (if not U.S.) history. The appeal…
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