DLA Piper harassment debacle deepens with email release

October 21, 2019 Leave a comment

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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 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2018, file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown Pa. Prosecutors set to defend Cosby’s sexual assault conviction in appeals court Aug. 12, say the accusations from other women are no coincidence, but “the culmination of a decades-long pattern of behavior.” The 82-year-old comic actor is the first celebrity convicted and sent to prison in the #MeToo era. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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 Leave a comment

‘The mere act of referencing a jury demand by checking ‘yes’ in the Jury Demand section is not an assertion of a constitutional right but rather simply indicates whether the party has already filed, or intends to file, a jury demand,’ wrote Court of Appeals Judge Clayton Greene Jr. in a ruling Monday affirming lower court decisions that checking a box on the civil Case Information Report does not entitle a party to a jury trial. (ThinkStock)

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 Leave a comment

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

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 Leave a comment

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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Prosecutor says Cosby used good-guy rep to harm women

April 24, 2018 Leave a comment

Bill Cosby arrives for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The jury in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial was poised to begin deliberating after prosecutors on Tuesday portrayed the 80-year-old former TV star as a serial predator who drugged and molested a woman 14 years ago. The defense called Cosby's accuser a "pathological liar" who was seeking a big payday.

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No tampons in prison? #MeToo helps shine light on issue

March 27, 2018 Leave a comment

In this March 3, 2018 photo, Kimberly Haven, left, and Monica Cooper, two advocates for reforms in correctional facilities, pose for a photo in front of the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md. Both Haven and Cooper, who are former inmates, testified in favor of a measure to ensure women have free access to menstrual products on request while in correctional facilities. Growing recognition about the lack of access to basic feminine hygiene products that can occur in correctional facilities has created a wave of measures in state legislatures. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Kimberly Haven couldn't get the feminine hygiene products she needed in Maryland's only prison for women while serving a 15-month sentence, so she made her own using toilet paper. She said that after her release in 2015, she suffered toxic shock syndrome and needed an emergency hysterectomy.

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Megan McArdle: The #MeToo movement has worked

January 11, 2018 Leave a comment

In the wake of sexual harassment allegations made against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, seen here in April, a California lawmaker plans to introduce a bill next year to prohibit nondisclosure agreements in financial settlements that arise from sexual harassment, assault and discrimination cases. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP file photo)

Me too. Me too. Me too. When our friends and colleagues are the accusers, when our neighbors and peers are the accused, the problem stares us in the face from a proximity so intimate that we cannot dismiss it with ...

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