Our Mission

Public Good works to level the playing field. The voices of government and “corporate persons” are well represented in courtrooms around this country. The perspectives of the consumer, the student, the debtor, the individual … are not. Too often this means that judicial decisions are made, and the law is developed, without input on behalf of most of the people the law will affect. It is this imbalance that Public Good tries to correct.

  • When giant financial companies seek a court ruling that would allow them to avoid all statutes of limitations on collecting decades-old consumer debts, while statutes of limitations continue to apply to consumer claims against the companies …
  • When a high school student is told that, despite all he’s learned in history class about freedom of conscience, he must recite the pledge of allegiance unless his parents write him a note …
  • When corporations argue that they are victimized and discriminated against by reasonable limits on their power to dominate political debate…
  • When retailers prey on the public’s better instincts by falsely advertising that their products are American-made or meet standards for social or environmental responsibility, and then argue that their defrauded customers have no legal recourse…
  • When tobacco companies complain that their rights of free expression are violated when they are prohibited from selling their products at a discount to entice young smokers…

We are there.

We are there to remind courts that it is “The People” who ordained and established the Constitution. We are there to ensure that governments at every level recall that they exist to serve the public, not the other way around. We are there to challenge businesses that use their size and power to take advantage of consumers on the premise that being “a little bit dishonest” is necessary for success.

We intervene strategically in significant cases to place a weight on the side of the scale that represents ordinary people. Through this work we seek to further our mission: to make the rules a little bit fairer, the courts a little bit more accessible, justice just a little bit closer to hand.