Active Day is a Medicaid provider that operates the country’s largest network of daytime care services for adults with developmental disabilities. The company provides these services in accordance with the Intellectual Disability/Related Disabilities Medicaid Waiver (ID/RD)—a program that permits states to offer an array of home and community-based services that an individual with intellectual disabilities…
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…
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 this case in U.S. District Court in Florida on behalf of three former Scientology members. These former members brought claims for human trafficking and forced labor against the Church of Scientology, various other Scientology entities, and David Miscavige, the head of Scientology. Background The Plaintiffs claim that, as young children,…
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…
This is a federal lawsuit led by Public Justice Foundation Board Member Hassan Zavareei, with fellow Board Member Janet Varnell as local counsel, and Public Justice as co-counsel, against the Trump for President Campaign, and against President Trump personally, in the Middle District of Florida. The case is on behalf of a former employee of…
This is a putative class action on behalf of people who purchased Samsung’s Galaxy S3 smartphone before learning that many of the technologies used in the phone allegedly infringed upon Apple patents—allegations which resulted in a multi-million-dollar jury verdict against Samsung. In response to this consumer class action, Samsung invoked its arbitration clause, which was…
This was an appeal to the Maryland Court of Appeals to keep a consumer class action against debt buyer Midland Funding in court and to prevent Midland from forcing the dispute into arbitration on an individual, non-class basis. Midland had operated in Maryland for two and a half years without the license that all collection…
This is an appeal involving the enforceability of a payday lender’s arbitration agreement that purports to require arbitration in a forum that doesn’t exist, and pursuant to rules that don’t exist. Army veteran Joshua Parnell brought a class action against a predatory lender relating to its 233% interest rates and illegal origination fees. The lender,…