Attorney Jenifer Rodriguez shares the challenges and wins of farmworker advocacy in Colorado — *Lea este artículo en español abajo* Every person, regardless of where they come from, what they do for work, or where they live, should have access to fundamental services like healthcare, education, and legal help. As the managing attorney for Colorado Legal Services’ Migrant Farm Worker Division, Jenifer Rodriguez leads a team to make that vision a reality for farmworkers in Colorado. But her team’s work was complicated by a recent lawsuit filed by a group of agribusinesses against…

By Megan Varvais, Public Justice Communications Associate In early 2009, I became one of many laid-off workers during the Great Recession. Unemployment meant I operated on razor-thin financial margins, never more than a few hundred dollars from disaster. Most of my purchases were small dollar items, things like five dollar…

One of the most important and persistent “kitchen table” issues facing American families is their grocery bill. Politicians are routinely asked if they can recite the cost of a gallon of milk as evidence of whether they’re in touch with Americans struggling to put food on the table. And grocery…

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…