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Jury returns $5M verdict against Wichita private school
A Kansas jury returned a multimillion-dollar verdict against a Wichita private school in a teacher-student sexual abuse lawsuit after an eight-day trial.
Appeals court won’t reconsider ruling that Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $5M in sex abuse case
A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its ruling upholding a $5 million civil judgment against President Donald Trump in a civil lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a writer in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.
Jury finds in favor ex-prof accused of exploiting students
A federal jury has found in favor of a former University of Illinois professor in a lawsuit two women filed accusing him of sexually and emotionally exploiting them when they were his students.
Supreme Court weighs religious immunity in sexual abuse suit
Twenty-three years ago, the Missouri Supreme Court said courts cannot peer into the hiring and firing practices of religious organizations.
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