What’s at Stake When a new law is enacted, it must also be interpreted and applied correctly by courts. That’s why the first legal cases regarding a new law can be extremely important. This case is about ensuring a 2022 law protecting access to justice is correctly applied and interpreted in the U.S. Court of…
If a party writes unfair and unenforceable terms into a contract on purpose, should the rest of the contract be enforced at all? In March 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction that paused the arbitration initiated by Advanced Care Staffing (ACS), against Mr. Benzor Shem Vidal. Public Justice…
What’s at Stake Charles Adler, his son Grant, and Charles’s limited liability company, C. M. Adler, LLC, sued Gruma Corporation—one of the largest tortilla producers in the world—to challenge their retaliatory termination and to recover unpaid wages and other payments they were owed under state and federal labor law. After the district court granted Gruma’s…
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.…
In a set of two companion cases against the “virtual real estate” company Everyrealm, Inc. in the Southern District of New York, former employees Teyo Johnson and Katherine Yost brought discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. Notably, each plaintiff brought sexual harassment claims, in addition to other claims based on protected classes. The Access to Justice…
This is a D.C. Circuit appeal about the availability of a private right of action to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which mandates that federal agencies’ websites and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities. Jahinnslerth Orozco has worked as an intelligence analyst for the FBI since 2012. Mr. Orozco…
Public Justice is co-counsel in BookHolders v. DeHority, BookHolders v. Pletch, and BookHolders v. Steincamp, cases presenting issues of wage theft and illegal retaliation where we and our co-counsel are defending three Virginia Tech students who were sued by their former employer, a chain of college bookstores called BookHolders, after they reported to the Virginia Department…
Public Justice is co-counsel in Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., an overtime and wage theft case on behalf of former Taco Bell employee Robyn Morgan against Sundance Inc., a company that owns more than 150 Taco Bell franchises throughout the country. Co-Director of the Access to Justice Project Karla Gilbride will argue for the plaintiff before…
This is a case against Amazon on behalf of workers and their families at JFK8, the company’s Staten Island fulfillment center, who have been subjected to working conditions that have failed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the facility and in the workers’ communities. On June 3, 2020, Public Justice joined Make the Road…