A federal court in Washington, D.C., Wednesday determined that new Title IX regulations relating to sexual assaults on college campuses need to be adjudicated in court but can remain in place before trial.
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Federal prosecutors announced the arrest of three R. Kelly associates on Wednesday, accusing the men of having tried to extort and intimidate the jailed singer’s victims.
Read moreA Los Angeles police officer, now fired, fondled a dead woman’s breasts and nipples while investigating her death, the woman’s family says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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The European Court of Human Rights backed the Netherlands on Tuesday for deporting an immigrant whose long record of sexual assault dates back to his teen years.
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Saying the impending regulations will be costly and make it harder to discipline sexual misconduct, a group of blue states urged a federal judge on Friday to block the Trump administration’s changes to how schools must adjudicate sexual harassment and assault claims.
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Amber Heard’s former personal assistant claimed Wednesday that she told the model-actress about a violent sexual assault she had endured, only for Heard to “twist” the story for her own use.
Read moreProsecutors in Los Angeles County added five new charges Thursday in the case of the former University of Southern California doctor accused of sexually assaulting at least 20 female students between 2011 and 2015.
Read moreA woman claims she was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver, the 18th such lawsuit this calendar year; the complaint in King County Court states: “In 2018, Uber received reports of four rapes per week on average according to their own company review.”
Read moreA federal judge denied Jane Doe’s claim for punitive damages against the executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate for alleged sexual assault. New York and U.S. Virgin Islands laws bar recovery of punitive damages against a decedent tortfeasor’s estate.
Read moreBill Cosby can appeal two issues in his sexual assault case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. The court will consider whether allegations of uncharged misconduct with five women were properly allowed during trial and whether it was improper to allow evidence from a civil case against Cosby.
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A Hollywood producer and talent manager has been charged with multiple counts of rape, sexual assault and kidnapping four women in California, state prosecutors said Monday.
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A Florida university asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to allow the school to reveal the name of an alleged rape victim to jurors during an upcoming Title IX discrimination trial.
Read moreA train conductor sued the New York City Transit Authority and the supervisor she says sexually assaulted her at work while she was pregnant, in Kings County Court.
Read moreA lawsuit is seeking to have a vacancy declared following the 30-day suspension of acting Attorney General Curtis Hill which resulted from findings that he groped four women during a holiday party in 2018.
Read moreThe mother of a 13-year-old girl sued Lyft in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, claiming that despite its alleged policy of not giving rides to unaccompanied children, a Lyft driver did just that, delivering the girl, then 11, to a hotel where he sexually assaulted her.
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In a 7-4 en banc ruling, Seventh Circuit found a Wisconsin county liable for failing to supervise a male guard in charge of female inmates, allowing him to sexually assault five women hundreds of times over three years.
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A judge dismissed criminal charges Wednesday against former Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon, who was accused of lying to investigators in 2018 as they tried to learn what she knew years earlier about sexual assault complaints involving Larry Nassar.
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, saying “this never happened.”
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