Marking a significant surge in survivors seeking justice, over 300 additional women have filed suit against disgraced former gynecologist Robert Hadden—adding to the hundreds of other victims who already filed sexual misconduct claims against him. These lawsuits are perhaps also motivated by...

The Biden Administration released guidance in response to the Supreme Court's June 2023 decision on race-conscious university admissions processes, advising higher education institutions to sustain diversity initiatives within legal boundaries. Last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s...

Shedding light on alleged sexual abuse of ICE immigrant detainees at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia as well as ICE facilities nationwide For years, patterns of sexual abuse have plagued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities nationwide. Recently,...

Sexual assault survivors of former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar seek accountability in recent lawsuit against the University and its Board of Trustees. The women claim school officials made secret decisions to withhold more than 6,000 documents in an investigation into how Nassar got...

Although Title IX of the of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) includes protections for students from sexual assault and harassment, sexual misconduct remains prevalent across many college and university campuses, including at Stanford University where, according to a 2019...

An investigation by The Guardian has uncovered a massive cover-up of child sex abuse by the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker confessed to his superiors that he had molested multiple teens over a 15-year period, but has never been charged. Several accusations...

The Madison County School District in Kentucky recently settled a lawsuit to remedy racism after an investigation by the DOJ found that school administrators failed to respond to reports of hostile racism in the form of racial epithets by a Kentucky high school student and her family, as well...

Nine more women have come forward with decades-old claims of sexual assault against comedian Bill Cosby. This lawsuit was filed just a few weeks after Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bill removing the two-year statute of limitations for adults to file sexual abuse cases. Other states, such...

This week, G&E’s Steve Kelly and Suzanne Sangree spoke on a panel hosted by the Maryland Association for Justice covering the Maryland Child Victims Act of 2023. Moderated by Jenner Law, “Representing Survivors of Institutional Sexual Abuse” panelists discussed the components of a case...

According to a recently filed lawsuit, a former Navarro College cheerleader has accused a male teammate of sexually assaulting her. The plaintiff alleges she was assaulted by the teammate in September 2021. Shortly afterward, she reported the assault to the head cheerleading coach. The...

California is coming closer to becoming the first state to ban discrimination based on caste, as a new bill passed the California Senate Judiciary Committee in April 2023. The bill would add caste as a protected category under California’s anti-discrimination laws, aiming to eliminate bias,...

While detained at the Prairieland Detention Center (PDC) in Alvarado, TX in 2018, Armenian immigrant Gourgen Mirimanian died in what his family believes was a cover-up by LaSalle Corrections, the private prison company that oversees the detention center. Mirimanian entered Immigration and...