A Tea Party Republican who was ousted from the Michigan House of Representatives after he used public funds to cover up an affair with a colleague argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday to revive his conspiracy claims against the state government and numerous lawmakers.
Read moreA police chief, city attorney and sheriff’s office enforcement major are entitled to qualified immunity on invasion of privacy claims relating to the release of redacted reports, the Eighth Circuit ruled. The reports pertained to an investigation into sexual misconduct by Josh Duggar, one of the stars of the television show “19 Kids and Counting.”
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A knife-toting Australian hired to break into another man’s home, tie him up and stroke him with a broom has been cleared of intimidation after accidentally entering the wrong house.
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A New Jersey judge who asked a woman in a sexual assault case if she tried closing her legs to her attacker was removed from the bench Tuesday for serious misconduct.
Read moreA woman sued Treasure Wellness and her former marriage counselor there in Ada County (Idaho) Court, claiming he told her to leave her husband and had a sexual affair with her that resulted in two miscarriages and a venereal disease.
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French women don’t get fat, according to one bestselling book. But the nation which likes to look after its figure has piled on the pounds during the coronavirus lockdown, a survey showed Wednesday.
Read moreSan Diego’s U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer on Monday warned landlords not to “demand sexual favors from cash-strapped tenants who can’t pay rent due to Covid-19,” calling it “not only despicable — it is illegal.”
Read moreA former assistant U.S. attorney sued Attorney General Will Barr et al. in federal court, claiming they fired her on false allegations that she had a sexual affair with the subject or target of a grand jury investigation.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday blocked the U.S. Small Business Administration from denying federal coronavirus relief loans to multiple Wisconsin strip clubs based on their businesses’ sexual nature, ordering the government agency to start facilitating the emergency loans by Monday.
Read moreA self-proclaimed Satanist who participates in “sex magick rituals” lost his second suit challenging Illinois laws prohibiting adultery, fornication and bigamy. The man could not show a “reasonable fear of prosecution” under the adultery and fornication statutes, the Eighth Circuit ruled, and his bigamy claim is barred by Supreme Court precedents.
Read moreA former manager claims Marion County, Oregon wrongfully fired him for a slip of the tongue: in an interview with an employee who sought a supervisory position, he called her “a champion for her sexuality,” though he meant to say for her gender, in Marion County Court.
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Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at 70.
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A federal judge has upheld a ban on women going topless at one of the East Coast’s most popular beach destinations, rejecting arguments from five women that a local ordinance is sexist.
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Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decided to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue.
Read moreA woman who was burned while using her B Yours Vibe 2 vibrator may pursue her design defect claims against the seller of the device, a federal court in Washington ruled, finding that her electrical-engineering expert’s testimony is admissible given the “‘liberal thrust’ of the Federal Rules.”
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