The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, Common Cause, and seven Pennsylvania voters announced their move to intervene in United States v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a lawsuit the Department of Justice brought against Pennsylvania and its Secretary of the Commonwealth, Al Schmidt. The case is part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to compel states to […]
HARRISBURG – On Friday, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania affirmed the lower court’s decision that the Washington County Board of Elections must inform voters if they have made a disqualifying error on their mail ballot packets. Notifying voters that they have made a mistake allows them an opportunity to cast a provisional ballot on Election […]
PHILADELPHIA – Several young patients and their parents have asked federal courts in Pennsylvania to quash sweeping subpoenas issued by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking years’ worth of medical records of every patient under the age of 19 who received gender-affirming care from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). […]
August 15, 2025—In the face of a prolonged affordable housing crisis, the city of Pittsburgh enacted an inclusionary zoning ordinance to expand access to affordable, secure housing for low- and moderate-income Pittsburgh residents, who are disproportionately Black. The local ordinance requires developers to reserve 10% of units in residential projects of 20 units or more […]
July 3, 2025 – Norris Square Neighborhood Project (NSNP) is a Philadelphia treasure. Since the 1970s, NSNP has worked to restore and preserve urban landscapes and build youth leadership through community events and outreach, arts, cultural programs, and the creation of green space and urban gardens. The organization stewards six gardens in the Norris Square […]
The Public Interest Law Center has filed an employment discrimination complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) on behalf of Bariq Fluellen, a 12-year veteran Philadelphia firefighter who has been the target of racial harassment and threats due to his hairstyle.
July 24, 2025 – Today, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District rejected the Trump Administration’s attempt to terminate early a consent order that holds ESSA Bank & Trust accountable for alleged discriminatory redlining of majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia. The decision comes as DOJ moves to dismiss fair lending and […]
A Black man who was denied employment by convenience store chain Sheetz has moved to intervene in a federal criminal history discrimination lawsuit after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) notified plaintiffs that it plans to drop the case—not based on the evidence, but due to a directive from President Trump.
Fair housing organizations took action to oppose the U.S. Department of Justice’s motion to prematurely terminate a federal Consent Order that holds Lakeland Bank (now part of Provident Bank) accountable for years of alleged discriminatory lending practices in Black and Latino neighborhoods across the Newark metro region.
In attempt to end the epidemic of the lead poisoning of Philadelphia children, city law requires all landlords to certify to tenants and to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health that a rental is either lead-safe or lead-free. The same law requires the Health Department to publicly publish the certification status of each property in […]
