Report Finds California Has Failed in Effort to Reduce Racial Disparities in Service Delivery for Children with Developmental Disabilities May 25, 2022 Despite a 6-year, $66 million investment to address inequities, significant gaps in services funding between ... Learn More
Native Voters Demand Access to Electoral Rights May 18, 2022 PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA–May 18, 2022– Today, the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and individual voters filed ... Learn More
Tenants-rights Groups File Suit Against California for Failing to Provide Covid-19 Rental Assistance to Eligible Tenants May 5, 2022 LOS ANGELES, CA — May 4, 2022 — The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) ... Learn More
Separated Family Files Suit for Harm Caused by Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy April 26, 2022 PHOENIX, AZ — April 26, 2022 — A mother and daughter filed suit yesterday in ... Learn More
Havasupai Students Achieve Watershed Legal Victory for Native Education Rights March 17, 2022 PHOENIX – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a historic ... Learn More
Settlement with City of LA Secures Change to Towing Policy, Provides Compensation to Cancer Survivor February 24, 2022 LOS ANGELES – In 2020, Joseph Morrissey, a cancer survivor, filed a lawsuit against the ... Learn More
Public Counsel Senior Supervising Attorney Becomes First Latina Woman Appointed to the Federal Bankruptcy Bench for the Central District of California January 19, 2022 Magdalena Reyes Bordeaux Managed Public Counsel’s Debtor Assistance Project – the Largest Bankruptcy Pro Bono ... Learn More
Thousands of Tenants Seek to Intervene in Real Estate Mogul’s Lawsuit Challenging LA Eviction Moratorium October 25, 2021 Los Angeles – Groups representing tens of thousands of Los Angeles tenants—most of them Black and ... Learn More
Black Farmers Face Severe Economic Displacement if Critical USDA Debt Relief is Denied October 12, 2021 For Immediate Release: October 12, 2021 Contact: Rekha Radhakrishnan rradhakrishnan@publiccounsel.org Black Farmers Face Severe Economic Displacement ... Learn More
Former President & CEO Hernan Vera Nominated to Federal District Court by President Biden September 9, 2021 Public Counsel Celebrates Nomination of Its Former President & CEO Hernan Vera to Federal District ... Learn More