Remembering John Hurlbut(June 14, 1939 - June 15, 2021)Yesterday morning John B. Hurlbut, Jr. of Rutan & Tucker passed away after a long and courageous battle with cancer.John began his career with Rutan in 1964 after graduating as a MVP student athlete at Stanford and later from Stanford Law School. He finished his career at ... Read More
Public Law Center’s staff and board of directors are heartbroken by the murders of eight people, including six Asian American women, in Georgia on March 16. These horrific crimes marks over a year of increased attacks on members of Asian American communities nationwide. As we call for the needs of the victims of this tragedy ... Read More
This morning, the United States Supreme Court struck down the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to end the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program in September 2017. PLC is excited and hopeful the ruling in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) vs. Regents of the University of California, et al, will restore the DACA ... Read More
Our mission to achieve access to justice has long included working to dismantle institutional barriers to safe and healthy places for our clients to live. As a nation, we have far too often failed to live up to the ideal that “all [people] are created equal”. The events of the past ... Read More
Santa Ana - Public Law Center, in partnership with the Council on Aging Southern California (COASC), is one of six organizations nationally (and the only one in California) to receive the first-ever Legal Assistance Enhancement Program (LAEP) funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living (ACL). The three-year ... Read More
Costa Mesa -- In a major victory for low-income tenants displaced from residential motels by municipal action, the City of Costa Mesa and a local developer have agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle a pair of lawsuits filed by displaced tenants and affordable housing advocates. Public Law Center and partners represented plaintiffs in ... Read More
This morning, the Public Law Center and our partner, The Kennedy Commission, filed a Amicus Curiae "Friend of the Court" Brief in support of the plaintiffs in Orange County Catholic Worker v. Orange County. We ask the Court to enjoin the evictions at the Santa Ana Riverbed and stop law enforcement from arresting persons in ... Read More
Days before Christmas in 2017, pro bono attorneys Abby Lloyd and Kris Wood (Orrick) walked into a courtroom with their client Israel Luis Hernandez Cruz after over five years of working to save Israel's life. They walked out that same day with Israel winning the highest level of immigration relief he qualified for. When Abby ... Read More
In the wake of the recent Equifax data breach, the Public Law Center (PLC) advises consumers to take precautions to protect their personal information. For approximately three months in 2017, hackers accessed people’s names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses. For some consumers they also took driver license numbers, credit card numbers and ... Read More
Santa Ana - The Public Law Center, Orange County's Pro Bono Law Firm, is deeply disappointed in today's Trump administration decision to end the bipartisan-supported Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program. In addition to throwing the lives of approximately 800,000 DACA recipients and their families into disarray and driving hard working Americans into the ... Read More
