An Oscar-shortlisted documentary titled “The Facility,” uses footage from pay-per-minute video calls—including ones between PLC Directing Attorney Monica Glicken and her client—from a now shuttered ICE Detention Center to provide a glimpse of the horrors of life in ICE detention during the pandemic. Please tune in at 7pm PT on Sunday, January 23 to ... Read More
Reflecting On Our Impact All of us at Public Law Center wish you a joyful and safe holiday season. You have been an integral part in providing life-changing legal aid to our vulnerable neighbors in Orange County. Thank you! Please indulge us as we celebrate a recent recognition one of our leaders received. Director ... Read More
Earlier today, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Public Law Center’s Consumer Law Unit Directing Attorney, appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to give voice to PLC clients and other low-income debtors. Informed by both the over 5,000 bankruptcy consultation PLC has provided since 2012 and the impact of the pandemic on already disadvantaged families, Elizabeth stated: ... Read More
Huntington Beach, July 22, 2021 – In a major victory, Public Law Center client and partner organization, Kennedy Commission was awarded over $3.5 million in attorneys’ fees for its advocacy in its years-long legal battle with the City of Huntington Beach in Kennedy Commission v. Huntington Beach, LASC Case No. 30-2015-00801675). The Kennedy Commission lawsuit ... Read More
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
