In a sexual-assault case that brought disgrace to an elite New Hampshire prep school, the state Supreme Court upheld the conviction Tuesday of an 18-year-old who lured a freshman to a campus boiler room as part of an annual hookup competition.
Read moreAward-winning actress Judy Davis told a court on Monday that she had heard comments in the film industry that Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush’s career was finished after he was accused of inappropriate behavior toward a female co-star in a Sydney stage play.
Read moreThe head of the Senate Judiciary Committee referred Michael Avenatti to the Justice Department for criminal investigation on Thursday, saying the lawyer and a woman he represented misled the committee with during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing.
Read moreThe wife of actor Geoffrey Rush cried as she told a Sydney court on Wednesday how he had wept and curled up in the fetal position following newspaper allegations he had behaved inappropriately toward a female co-star.
Read moreBill Cosby’s trial judge is rejecting the actor’s bid for a new trial or sentencing hearing and directing him to file any appeals with the state Superior Court.
Read moreGeoffrey Rush told the judge hearing his defamation case on Monday he felt distraught and as though his head was filled with lead on seeing a newspaper’s publication of allegations he had behaved inappropriately toward a female co-star.
Read moreThe U.S. Justice Deparment has opened an investigation into Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania accused of covering up sex abuse — in some cases, for several decades.
Read moreBrandon Lee Moon spent 17 years in prison for a sexual assault he did not commit, and the Fifth Circuit this week reversed and remanded dismissal of his false-imprisonment claim against the city and county of El Paso because false imprisonment is a continuing tort in Texas.
Read moreThe judge presiding over the prosecution of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein dropped a charge Thursday related to allegations that he forced oral sex from an actress.
Read moreBy EMILY SCHMALL NEW DELHI (AP) — A complaint by a retired Bollywood actress living in the United States alleging
Read moreMidterm elections are a little under a month away and according to outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, the contentious battle to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has electrified the Republican base.
Read moreSen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced Friday afternoon that she will vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday, all but assuring his confirmation as the next associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreThe Nobel Peace Prize on Friday was awarded to a Congolese doctor and an Iraqi woman who was held captive by the Islamic State group for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
Read moreSeveral hundred protestors had a message for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday as they gathered before the nation’s highest court: we won’t be quiet.
Read moreA lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford is condemning President Donald Trump for mocking his client, who has said she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers.
Read moreLawyers for Christine Blasey Ford say in a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray that they’ve received no response from anyone involved in the FBI’s reopened background investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Read moreMark Judge, a high school friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, has completed his interview with FBI agents.
Read moreA John Doe masseur claims in L.A. Superior Court that Kevin Spacey sexually battered and assaulted him in October 2016 at Spacey’s Malibu home.
Read moreConcluding a four-hour session at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford gave emotional testimony Thursday about a night “seared” into her memory, a night when she says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh locked her in a bedroom and tried to rape her.
Read moreIn his first solo press conference since February 2017, President Donald Trump addressed allegations of sexual and physical assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by recalling his own experiences with similar allegations, blaming Democrats for what he called a “big fat con job” and warning men that we live in a “very dangerous period in our country.”
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