Women working at Disney, the world’s largest media company, have consistently been passed over for promotions and paid less than their male coworkers. This pattern was widespread, occurring throughout Disney’s many divisions and at every subsidiary Disney owned. According to an expert analysis, there is a one-in-a-billion chance this happened for any reason besides gender.…
Public Justice recently represented economist Loren Adler in a petition to unseal court records. The records were part of a qui tam (“private citizen”) False Claims Act case. That case, brought by former employees of private equity-backed Team Health, accused the company of defrauding Medicare and several state Medicaid programs by billing for medical services…
For decades, the Monterey County Jail in Monterey, California has abused the civil rights of the people it cages. The suicide rate at the jail is over three times the average for California jails, and the death rate at the jail is over two times the national average. In this calendar year alone, four people…
Corizon Health Services was one of the nation’s largest providers of correctional health care services in the United States. At one point, Corizon delivered health care to over 300,000 people incarcerated in state prisons and county jails across the country. But instead of providing good or even adequate care, Corizon chose to maximize profits by…
Public Justice recently filed an amicus brief in General Motors LLC v. Buchanan before the Georgia Supreme Court on the question of whether the court should adopt an “apex doctrine,” which places a heightened burden on a party who seeks to depose any high-ranking corporate officer to show that the testimony sought will be “unique”…
DirecTV was sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for failing to pay overtime wages to its TV installers, in violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). DirecTV had tried to avoid paying overtime wages to its workers by “subcontracting” its installation services to another company, which has since gone bankrupt. We represented the…
In an enforcement action by the Federal Trade Commission against payday lender AMG Services for charging consumers undisclosed and inflated fees, the court found that lenders violated federal law when they misrepresented to consumers how much loans would cost them. We represented Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) as an intervenor in the case, and successfully…
Public Justice represents the Center for Auto Safety in seeking to intervene in a fraud case against Goodyear for the sole purpose of gaining public access to the court records and discovery documents. According to the complaint in the case, Goodyear not only sold defective tires, but knew about the defect, intentionally concealed it, and…
We successfully challenged a court secrecy order and unsealed a scathing 36-page decision that sanctioned American Honda Motor Company (Honda) and its expert witness for deliberately tampering with evidence. The lawsuit was based on a 1999 accident in a Honda Civic that left plaintiff Sarah Davis, then 17 years old, a quadriplegic. The sanctions decision…