Standing up for the urgent and critical need for racial justice initiatives at all levels of government, the City of Seattle and Public Rights Project filed on Thursday an amicus curiae brief on behalf of a nationwide coalition of local governments in support of a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s Executive Order 13950, which attempts to ban the use of comprehensive diversity trainings by federal contractors.

Yesterday, the cities of Portland and Oakland, represented by co-counsel at Public Rights Project, filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s new policy and practice of unlawfully deploying federal law enforcement under the guise of protecting federal property. The purpose of this new policy and practice is to control, or overtake, progressive cities’ responses to protests.

Public Rights Project announced the third cohort of its flagship Public Rights Project Fellowship along with its fellowship in partnership with Justice Catalyst, an organization which supports early-stage projects that combat systems of injustice and builds upon or expands protections for oppressed communities.

The County of Santa Clara and Public Rights Project filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of a nationwide coalition of local and tribal governments opposing recent U.S. Postal Service (USPS) changes that have slowed critically important mail delivery.

Public Rights Project sheds light on Handy, an online home services marketplace, for ignoring sexual harassment claims filed by their misclassified and unprotected gig workers.

A coalition of seven cities, including New York City and Oakland, in partnership with the nonprofit Public Rights Project, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records from the Trump Administration related to the threatened and actual deployments of federal agents to progressive U.S. cities.

Leading a coalition of more than 120 public interest organizations, Public Rights Project issued a powerful public letter to the National Board of Bar Examiners and 34 state boards overseeing their bar examinations in response to the ongoing problems and systematic unfairness resulting from efforts to administer the bar exam during a global pandemic.

Public Rights Project collaborated with the City of Chicago in filing a local government amicus brief in defense of the Massachusetts eviction moratorium. Two landlords sued to stop the moratorium. The amicus brief defended the decision of the Massachusetts Legislature to impose a temporary moratorium on all nonpayment evictions in the state.

Public Rights Project announced the second cohort of its Affirmative Leaders Fellowship, a program created to help attorneys in state and local governments across the country expand their capacity to protect residents’ legal rights. The 2020 fellows began their one-year program with a two-day virtual convening and training June 9-10, 2020, which featured sessions around leadership and community-based enforcement.

Public Rights Project, partnering with the Oakland City Attorney’s Office, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down two Trump Administration rules that would permit employers to refuse to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees and plan beneficiaries. Submitted earlier today, the brief was co-led by the cities of Oakland and St. Paul, and was joined by 32 cities and counties from across the country.