Sexual Harassment Law Blog

Dr. Richard Strauss was employed as a physician by Ohio State University (OSU) for 20 years, from 1978 to 1998. During that time, Strauss sexually abused hundreds of male students. Now, 162 students will share in a nearly $41 million settlement. OSU admits that the university failed to respond...

Universities have long mishandled sexual misconduct allegations. Perhaps the best-known recent example is Michigan State University and how it dealt with child sexual abuse claims against Dr. Larry Nasser. Another famous case is that of Jerry Sandusky and child sexual abuse at Penn State, where...

Even in these days of mega legal settlements, $1.1 billion is an extraordinary amount of money. That is the total amount the University of Southern California is paying to resolve lawsuits from roughly 700 women alleging gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall sexually abused them at the USC student health...

This is every student’s nightmare. Take a once in a lifetime opportunity to participate in a study abroad program only to be sexually assaulted thousands of miles from home. When that happened to one Rhode Island School of Design student she fought back and won.
Jane Doe* was a student...

This month, Dartmouth College announced it had reached a settlement with nine women who had sued the college the previous fall for sexual misconduct by three former sciences professors. President Phil Hanlon announced the $14 million settlement in an email statement. The plaintiffs, who had...

Going to school shouldn’t be dangerous. We know that in gun violence is so bad in Chicago that cops in certain neighborhoods must set up safe corridors to ensure kids can walk and to and from school without getting shot. In New York City the big danger appears to be students getting sexually...

Recently, The New York Times reported that The University of Michigan has suspended Martin Philbert, a tenured professor of toxicology, who is also executive vice president for academic affairs, or provost. The university has hired an outside law firm to investigate several allegations against...

New California Law Offers One Time “Look back” for Minors Who Were the Victims of Rape, Incest, Sexual Assault or Abuse
[Posted updated 2021] Until January 2020, minors who were victims of sexual assault in California had a very limited window in which to file lawsuits against...

In December 2019, The Lantern, a student news outlet of the Ohio State University, reported that William White, a former OSU football player who also played 11 seasons in the NFL, abruptly resigned his position in lieu of termination after an investigation into sexual harassment allegations. Mr....

A junior high school English teacher and coach in Sallisaw, Oklahoma was charged with rape. Twenty nine year old Brandy Lynn Foreman was arrested after Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Office deputies determined they had probable cause to charge with having sex with two teenage...