In 2020, Samuel Voss purchased property in Cincinnati, Ohio. The seller used the proceeds from the sale to satisfy his mortgage with Rocket Mortgage (formerly Quicken Loans, LLC), but Rocket Mortgage did not report satisfaction of the mortgage with the county recorder’s office until after the 90-day deadline set by Ohio’s mortgage-recording statute. Mr. Voss sued…
When Public Justice’s work results in unsealed records, other attorneys have the resources they need to bring successful cases. We are dedicated to making sure that our courts are not used to hide evidence of government misconduct or corporate harm. In June 2024, Public Justice and the ACLU filed a motion to unseal court records…
In the Eastern District of Michigan, our Access to Justice team is challenging another aspect of the profit-driven conspiracy between prison telecom company Securus and St. Clair County, Michigan to exploit incarcerated people and their families: restricting access to U.S. mail in favor of expensive messaging products provided by Securus. As in our Right to…
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.…
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…
Our court system was designed to help individuals, businesses, and governments resolve their disputes. Part of access to justice means being able to use the courts to sue those who wrong you. This case is about whether a consumer can sue the federal government when it violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The federal…
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…
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…
Public Justice is lead appellate counsel in Whitson v. Hanna, in which the Tenth established that a county is liable when a “final policymaker”, like an elected sheriff, commits a criminal or tortious act, like sexual assault, while carrying out their official duties. Peatinna Biggs is a woman with intellectual disabilities who was being held at…