In late October of 2022, the San Francisco Superior Court approved a $118 million settlement in Ellis v. Google, a class action gender discrimination lawsuit on behalf of more than 15,000 female employees at Google. Public Justice recently sat down with member firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP’s Anne…

We’re using information, made public through litigation, to support our movements in holding corporate actors accountable — Earlier this month, the Public Justice Food Project published a deep dive into documents that we obtained through our false advertising suit against Hormel Foods and their “Natural Choice” line of products. The documents are both exciting and damning, since they reveal a fine-grain picture of the practices Hormel used…

In early October, a California jury returned a landmark verdict of $102.6 million to a class of consumers in a lawsuit against General Motors LLC. After eight days of trial, the jury found that GM had manufactured and installed a defective engine that caused premature breakdown in hundreds of thousands…

By Karen Ocamb, Director of Media Relations Tom Sobol’s favorite part of the 7,359-word article “Greed on Trial” in the June 2004 issue of The Atlantic is being compared to singer Bruce Springsteen. “My favorite moment during last winter’s $1.3 billion Massachusetts tobacco-fee trial came near the end, when Ronald…

In August 2021, a massive cyberattack against T-Mobile led to the data breach of an estimated 76.6 million customers’ personal information, including names, addresses, birth dates, driver’s license data and Social Security numbers. After almost a year of litigation, combining more than 40 proposed class-action lawsuits against T-Mobile for its…

“As I sat in my farmhouse by candlelight during the dead of winter, it became very clear to me. My lights had been turned off. Federal officers were knocking at my door threatening to confiscate my equipment. Foreclosure signs were being posted on my property. Stress had destroyed my family…

By Karen Ocamb, Director, Media Relations for Public Justice For a moment, a beat, an uncharacteristically cavernous pause, Richard Zitrin seemed at a loss for the precise words to sum up his reaction to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and striking down a New York gun conceal law. …

By Karen Ocamb, Director of Media Relations Nothing can assuage the pain of losing a child. But for Amy Cooper, who lost her adult son to an OxyContin overdose, doing nothing to prevent her family tragedy from happening to others would be excruciating. That’s why she stood in her pain…

By Phillip Robinson In recent years we have learned that American Courts and the judicial system have become less open and have concealed from the public material information that could have otherwise saved thousands of lives. …