Sexual Harassment Law Blog

A Minnesota custard stand and its owner settled allegations that the owner sexually harassed a 14 year old female employee. Although the settlement was minimal, it demonstrates that young adults have important rights in the workplace. Whether you are a child or an adult, sexual harassment is never...

North Carolina H.S. Student Awarded $10.5 Million in Sexual Assault Case A federal jury ordered the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District and a former band leader to pay millions to a former student who was sexually abused and harassed while attending the West Charlotte High School. The...

U.S. Figure Skating, the governing body of the sport, has agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle a lawsuit alleging one of the most prominent coaches in its history of sexual assault.
Adam Schmidt, now 36, claimed he was sexually assaulted many times as a teen by USFS Olympic Coach Richard...

Southwest Airlines Sued for Sexual Assault of 13 Year Old This story is every parent’s worst nightmare. Every child’s too. It begins 2 days after Christmas in 2019 when a family was returning home from a trip. Mom was on board a Southwest Airlines flight for a 2.5 hour trip to their...

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...

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...

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...

The Perry School District in Perry, OK has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the families of 14 youngsters who were inappropriately touched by an octogenarian teacher’s aide. The incidents occurred at the Perry Elementary School, and the girls involved were in the fifth grade. A total of 16...