A lawyer for a Pennsylvania prison argued Wednesday before the Third Circuit that it is simply following state law by keeping men and women inmates in separate facilities that have different rules.
Read moreBritain’s Prince Andrew has said he was “appalled” by allegations of sexual abuse surrounding Jeffrey Epstein after a video was released purporting to show him at the home of the convicted pedophile in 2010.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit ruled that an Arkansas zoning law that prevents “adult-oriented” businesses from opening within 1,000 feet of schools is constitutional. A sex shop compared itself to CVS and Walgreens, but the items regulated by the zoning law are not staples of those general stores, so the shop’s equal protection claim failed.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that a South Dakota high school punished a student after falsely claiming that her statement in an edition of the student newspaper that her hobby was to “Netflix and chill” with her boyfriend referred to having sex, and that the school did not punish male students who had said the same thing.
Read moreIn front of a packed courtroom for his New York arraignment Friday, R. Kelly sat slouched in his chair with a pained look on his face and pleaded not guilty.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Monday continued his racist Twitter attacks against four Democratic congresswomen he told to go back to where they came from, despite the fact that three were born in the U.S., calling on them to apologize for “the terrible things they have said.”
Read moreThe defense team began making their case Thursday in a preliminary hearing before the International Criminal Court to determine whether evidence is strong enough to prosecute a Malian man facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Read moreSweden’s top court has reversed a lower court’s ruling and found a man guilty of rape for having sex without explicit consent.
Read moreThe International Criminal Court opened a week-long preliminary hearing Monday to decide whether evidence is strong enough to put a Malian man on trial for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Timbuktu.
Read moreNew York City’s most ethnically diverse borough, the landing point for and home to many of the city’s immigrants, will head to the polls Tuesday for a primary that will help decide whether their next top prosecutor will target U.S. immigration officials who violate civil rights.
Read moreU.S. women will soon have another drug option designed to boost low sex drive: a shot they can give themselves in the thigh or abdomen that raises sexual interest for several hours.
Read moreFive top female anchors and reporters for NY1 denounced the local news broadcaster in a federal lawsuit on Wednesday for attempting to “cast them aside” in favor of younger women and men.
Read moreThe New York City subway has a sexist double standard on racy advertisements, according to a lawsuit from a Brooklyn vibrator company that says its tasteful ad submissions were arbitrarily banned, though MTA trains are covered in lurid ads for men’s arousal products and erectile dysfunction treatments.
Read moreIn his last opportunity to defend his client in front of a federal jury, a defense attorney said Monday afternoon that former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere might be a philanderer but that having multiple intimate partners is not a crime.
Read moreThe Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved a $650,000 settlement of a free-speech lawsuit filed by a pornography-convention organizer who was kicked out the city-owned convention center three years ago on moral grounds.
Read moreAn attorney for an adult store argued before an Eighth Circuit panel Wednesday that an Arkansas city’s refusal to grant it a business license violates its right to equal protection.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews fired a woman for complaining that her supervisor refused to promote her after she refused to have sex with him.
Read moreBotswana became the latest country to decriminalize gay sex on Tuesday in a landmark case for Africa when the High Court rejected as unconstitutional sections of the penal code punishing same-sex relations with up to seven years in prison.
Read moreA 31-year-old actress testified Friday that the former leader of purported self-help group NXIVM tied her blindfolded to a table and had another woman perform oral sex on her while he watched, walked around the room and asked her questions about her sexual history.
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