WASHINGTON — The shooting looked bad. But that is when the professor is at his best. A black motorist, pulled to the side of the road for a turn-signal violation, had stuffed his hand into his pocket. The white officer yelled for him to take it out. When the driver started to comply, the officer

Winners of the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award Source.  Each year, Public Justice presents its Trial Lawyer of the Year Award to the attorney(s) who made the greatest contribution to the public interest within the past year by trying or settling a precedent-setting, socially significant case. 2015 Winners The 2015 winners are the team

AUSTIN — Texas home insurers, led by the three largest companies, racked up a third straight year of healthy profits in 2014, thanks to higher rates and low levels of stormy weather across the state. But the industry is still seeking legislation that would curb the ability of homeowners to sue insurers for unpaid claims

By: Nan Aron, Source: Huffington Post. For the past six months, Alliance for Justice staff have been crisscrossing the country telling the stories of three everyday Americans caught up in a practice called forced arbitration. Alan Carlson, Nicole Mitchell, and Debbie Brenner are featured in our short documentary, Lost in the Fine Print. The film

By: Jesse Hagopian, Haymarket Books “We are experiencing the largest ongoing revolt against high-stakes standardized testing in US history,” according to Jesse Hagopian, high school history teacher, education writer and editor of More Than a Score. This remarkable book introduces the educators, students, parents and others who make up the resistance movement pushing back against

Along Recovery  is an intimate documentary portrait of the signature wound of Afghanistan and Iraq–traumatic brain injury (TBI).  The film chronicles the recovery of four US soldiers evacuated from combat for treatment at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. With unprecedented access to film inside the Army’s flagship hospital, Along Recovery depicts the