Sexual Harassment Law Blog

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...

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is the state’s top law enforcement officer. His job is to “protect the rights, freedoms, and safety” of everyone in the state. As Curtis Hill just found out, however, even he is not above the law. This week the Indiana Supreme Court suspended...

Each day hundreds of people become victims of sexual assault. Rapes and other sex crimes can occur anywhere. At home, in a car, at college or in alley. If the victim comes forward and the police catch the offender, there is a good chance that the offender goes to prison. Although that may give some...

NJ Doctor License Suspended for Sex Abuse Charges When you examine the disciplinary records from state boards of medicine, doctors are rarely punished for sexually abusing their patients. The numbers suggest the medical profession has few problems with predatory doctors. Patients often tell a very...

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein received a sentence of 23 years in prison on March 11 for sexually assaulting two women in New York. At age 67, that is tantamount to a virtual life sentence for Weinstein, who will be 90 if he serves the full term.
He is still facing additional sexual...

The name Harvey Weinstein, once synonymous with quality movie-making, is now more associated with the term “sexual predator.” More than 30 actresses and former employees will share in a tentative $25 million settlement between Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt film company, The...