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In the days leading up to the Nov. 8 general election, former NFL player and Georgia Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker faced new accusations by a second anonymous woman who alleged she became pregnant by Mr. Walker and that Mr. Walker had pressured...
On Sept. 19, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Sexual Abuse And Cover-Up Accountability Act into law. The measure allows adult sexual assault survivors to file civil lawsuits for offenses that happened on or after Jan. 1, 2009. The measure brings new hope for...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued the upscale California Italian restaurant Il Fornaio for persistent sexual harassment suffered by female workers. The complaint, filed Aug. 24, alleges that male supervisors and co-workers sexually harassed...
According to a new filing by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Justin Vineyards & Winery in Paso Robles allowed male managers to sexually harass female workers for more than five years. The EEOC filed a lawsuit on Aug. 25 claiming that the...
In May 2016, three male students at Focus Point Academy in Pasadena sexually assaulted an 11-year-old special education student. More than six years later, in response to a 2018 lawsuit accusing the district of negligence, a jury awarded the student $26 million in...
From early fall 2017 to late spring 2018, a male supervisor threatened female workers who were part of a cleaning crew at a Mississippi shipyard that they could lose their jobs unless they had sex with him. According to a federal lawsuit, he threatened to kill one...
In May, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced LinkedIn agreed to settle a pay discrimination complaint filed by the government. As a result, the employment-networking online service will pay $1.8 million to nearly 700 female workers based in California. Labor...
Students and faculty at the nation’s largest university system expressed frustration over multiple incidents involving sexual assault, sexual harassment, workplace retaliation and racism. The comments were made during the Cal State Board of Trustees’ regular May...
Online financial news website Insider reports that in 2018, SpaceX paid $250,000 over a sexual harassment claim by a flight attendant against CEO Elon Musk. The flight attendant who accused Musk did not speak directly with Insider. According to another source who...
The Adult Survivors Act (ASA) was signed into law on May 24 by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and will go into effect on November 24, 2022. Under the ASA, sexual assault survivors, whose abuse took place when they were over 18, has a one-year window to file a civil...
