Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Thursday that the Trump administration will rewrite an Obama-era schools directive on sexual assault in an effort to balance the rights of victims and the accused.
Read moreThough initially slated to face retrial on sexual-assault charges before the 2017 holiday season, Bill Cosby won a delay of at least four months Tuesday.
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A Texas A&M University student claims the school suspended him over a female student’s bogus sexual-assault claims and finished its investigation without letting him defend himself, as he was hospitalized with depression from the ordeal.
Read moreAnother woman came forward Tuesday claiming that fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski “sexually victimized” her in Southern California when she was 16 years old.
Read moreAn eight-member federal jury deliberated for less than five hours Monday before finding a former Denver disc jockey liable for groping singer Taylor Swift at a meet-and-greet in 2013.
Read moreTaylor Swift’s attorney and the attorney for the disc jockey Swift accuses of groping her made their final statements to the eight-member jury on Monday morning.
Read moreIn a mid-trial move, a federal judge late Friday dismissed a DJ’s claims that singer Taylor Swift ruined his career by accusing him of groping her at a meet-and-greet.
Read moreThe judge in the groping trial between Taylor Swift and a former radio host sent jurors home Friday as he weighed whether to dismiss the DJ’s claims that the singer ruined his career.
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“It was a definite grab, a very long grab,” Taylor Swift testified Thursday at the trial of a former DJ she accuses of groping her before a concert. “It was long enough for me to be completely sure it was intentional.”
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A University of Texas student claims that after he was cleared of sexual-assault allegations by a female student, the university president reversed the decision because of a new policy that allows people to retroactively withdraw consent for sex if they were intoxicated.
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Jury selection was to continue and opening arguments were expected Tuesday for a former radio host’s defamation lawsuit against Taylor Swift and her counterclaim that the DJ sexually assaulted her during a photo shoot.
Read moreBrian McMonagle, notable Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer and former lead attorney representing comedian Bill Cosby in his sexual assault trial, asked a Pennsylvania judge this week to let him step down from representing Cosby in his November retrial.
Read moreIn a lawsuit against Philadelphia, a woman claims one of its police officers stalked and sexually assaulted for 90 minutes while he was on duty — and that some of it was captured on surveillance video.
Read moreA federal judge prohibited Taylor Swift’s sexual assault expert from testifying about the possible motivations of Swift’s alleged groper, former Denver radio DJ David Mueller, saying the testimony focused more on the “why” than the “what.”
Read moreA student worker claims in a federal lawsuit that her supervisor at Prairie View A&M University got her the job, forced her to perform oral sex and fired her when she complained.
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Another customer has sued Uber, claiming she was sexually assaulted by her driver, days before another Uber, a felon, was arrested on a similar charge.
Read moreA judge on Friday ordered a longtime doctor at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics to stand trial on charges of sexually assaulting six young gymnasts who said he molested them while they were seeking treatment for various injuries.
Read moreA South Florida student claims in court that the Miami-Dade County School Board damaged her reputation when it released information that identified her as the victim of a sexual assault to a local TV station.
Read moreA woman whose Uber driver raped her in New Delhi, India, sued the ride-sharing company in federal court Thursday, claiming Uber executives illegally obtained her medical records in an attempt to discredit her traumatic story.
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