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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigning over sexual harassment

August 10, 2021 Comments Off on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigning over sexual harassment (access required)

FILE - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at New York's Yankee Stadium, Monday, July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday he would resign over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in a fall from grace.

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For top #MeToo legal duo, a pandemic year brings no pause

July 12, 2021 Comments Off on For top #MeToo legal duo, a pandemic year brings no pause (access required)

Civil rights attorneys Debra Katz, left, and Lisa Banks, pose on May 21, 2021, for a portrait at their law firm in Washington. For many people, the pandemic year has brought a pause of some kind, or at least a slowdown, to their professional endeavors. For Katz and Banks, the opposite has been true. “This is probably the biggest year we’ve ever had,” says Banks. Their work has been increasing for nearly four years. When the Harvey Weinstein revelations erupted in October 2017, launching the reckoning that became known as the #MeToo movement, it caused “a sea change," Katz says. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The COVID pandemic did not slow down the work of civil rights attorneys Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, who specialize in sexual harassment cases in the #MeToo era.

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Actress on the stand: Weinstein held me down, raped me

January 23, 2020 Comments Off on Actress on the stand: Weinstein held me down, raped me (access required)

NEW YORK — “Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, testifying that the former Hollywood studio boss overpowered and raped her and made other crude overtures that included sending her X-rated chocolates and showing up ...

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Harvey Weinstein indicted on new sex crimes charges in LA

January 6, 2020 Comments Off on Harvey Weinstein indicted on new sex crimes charges in LA (access required)

LOS ANGELES — Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on new sex crime charges in Los Angeles, just as his trial on separate rape and sexual assault charges in New York was poised to get underway, prosecutors announced Monday. The Hollywood ...

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Bill Cosby sex assault verdict is upheld

December 10, 2019 Comments Off on Bill Cosby sex assault verdict is upheld (access required)

Bill Cosby lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. In its ruling, the Superior Court affirmed the right of prosecutors to ...

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DLA Piper harassment debacle deepens with email release

October 21, 2019 Comments Off on DLA Piper harassment debacle deepens with email release (access required)

Just after Vanina Guerrero joined one of the world’s biggest law firms, she received a late-night email from the star partner who ran her new team at DLA Piper. “You are helping me reach people I couldn’t before,” Louis Lehot, ...

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Prosecutors defending Cosby conviction point to a ‘signature’ crime

July 26, 2019 Comments Off on Prosecutors defending Cosby conviction point to a ‘signature’ crime (access required)

Prosecutors set to defend Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction in appeals court next month call the accusations from other women no coincidence, but “the culmination of a decades-long pattern of behavior.” Cosby, a long-beloved actor and comedian, was convicted in ...

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Tips on selecting a jury for harassment cases in the #MeToo era

February 1, 2019 Comments Off on Tips on selecting a jury for harassment cases in the #MeToo era (access required)

With the #MeToo movement continuing to dominate headlines, everyone is talking about sexual harassment — around the water cooler, around the family table and online. Media coverage of harassment is ubiquitous and #MeToo posts regularly go viral on social media. ...

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How it happened: Procedural vote on Kavanaugh was critical

October 8, 2018 Comments Off on How it happened: Procedural vote on Kavanaugh was critical (access required)

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell walked onto the Senate floor for the big vote to save Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination with a secret: He didn’t know how it would turn out. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The Senate majority leader ...

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Spokeswoman’s eviction from restaurant raises legal question

June 25, 2018 Comments Off on Spokeswoman’s eviction from restaurant raises legal question

Welcome to Monday, the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Rostker v. Goldberg decision upholding the men-only draft-registration requirement against a gender-discrimination challenge. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Can a restaurant evict customers based ...

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