California’s worker protection laws related to sexual misconduct and harassment are now stronger with new bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. These bills had been vetoed last year by his predecessor Jerry Brown. Improved Worker Protection Sexual harassment victims will...
The millennial and controversial Democrat from the Santa Clarita Valley, Rep. Katie Hill, is resigning from Congress. But her sexual harassment case has given rise to an additional debate on cyber harassment and the California law against revenge porn. Following the...
The apparent suicide of the alleged sex trafficker and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has left a large number of victims dissatisfied and disappointed. They understandably feel that justice could not be served against the perpetrator of such serious crimes of...
Following Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide in a prison cell in New York, a number of female victims who suffered sexual abuse from the disgraced financier, are planning to sue his estate for damages. Civil Claims against Epstein’s Estate Reuters has reported that an...
Ciara Newton, a Shell refinery employee based in California, was fired from her position at the refinery after being subjected to sexual harassment for several months. She endured everything from lewd stickers on her desk, two male supervisors making sexist comments,...
The deputy of a sheriff has filed a lawsuit against LA County for alleged sexual harassment on the job by her trainer and retaliation when she complained about it. The Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit was filed recently by Concepcion Hernandez Garcia alleging sexual...
The University of Southern California (USC) has once again come into the limelight for the wrong reasons. Eighteen more current and former students have joined a lawsuit accusing Dennis Kelly, a physician who treated student-patients, of sexual harassment and...
Bremer Family Winery is suing the local law firm that defended it in a Napa County code violations case that ended with a settlement the Bremers deem “unfavorable.” The lawsuit claims that Dickenson Peatman & Fogarty failed to adequately represent the Bremers,...
Boston University (BU) has fired its famous geologist David Marchant. According to a report published in Science about one and half years ago, Marchant was involved in sexually harassing women in remote Antarctic camps. The Hearing Committee comprising faculty members...
A prominent professor in the department of East Asian languages and cultures has been suspended by UC Berkeley after it was found that he sexually harassed a student in 2018. Allegations of Sexual Harassment According to The Chronicle, the accused, Alan Tansman,...