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,…
Public Justice has defended this Ninth Circuit appeal of a headline-generating $80 million verdict against chemical giant Monsanto on behalf of a California man who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after decades of exposure to Monsanto’s best-selling weedkiller Roundup. Hardeman sued Monsanto in 2016, arguing that his cancer was caused by Roundup, which lacked any kind of warning…
Public Justice has joined as co-counsel in the Ninth Circuit appeal of a decision dismissing, on federal preemption grounds, a putative consumer class action involving allegedly falsely labeled dietary supplements. The supplement in question, “TruNature Ginkgo Biloba,” is labeled and advertised as “support[ing] alertness & memory” and “help[ing] maintain healthy blood flow to the brain…
Public Justice has filed an amicus curiae in the Washington State Supreme Court in support of the plaintiffs, putative King County jurors who seek to end the disproportionate exclusion of low-income citizens and citizens of color from King County juries. Like many jurisdictions around the country, King County pays its jurors far below the minimum…
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…
Adelante Development Center, based in New Mexico, portrays itself as a corporate Good Samaritan, employing people with disabilities who would otherwise not be able to find jobs while providing a wide range of services to its private and governmental customers. For example, its Mailing and Fulfillment Center processes nearly all mail sent from state government…
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…
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…
Public Justice is co-lead counsel in a California Supreme Court case that presents an important issue of class certification: whether a plaintiff must demonstrate that absent class members can be identified, or “ascertained,” at the class certification stage. Our position is that, at most, Rule 23 and the analogous California rule regulating class actions require that…