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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

Actress Annabella Sciorra, right, arrives as a witness in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial, in New York, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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

Harvey Weinstein, third from right, is surrounded by court officers as he leaves court following a pre trial hearing, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, in New York. The disgraced movie mogul faces allegations of rape and sexual assault. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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

Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on Monday, the first day of his sentencing hearing. Cosby’s lawyers have asked the 81-year-old be placed in a detention or rehabilitation facility or be put under something akin to house arrest for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. (Matt Slocum/AP photo)

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

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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 Comments Off on Prosecutors defending Cosby conviction point to a ‘signature’ crime

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

The Montgomery County experience is being or will shortly be replicated in courtrooms across Maryland’s 22 other counties and Baltimore city.

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

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 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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Prosecutor says Cosby used good-guy rep to harm women

April 24, 2018 Comments Off on Prosecutor says Cosby used good-guy rep to harm women

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

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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