Challenging The Feres Doctrine: Sexual Assault In The Military
Members of the military make incredible sacrifices every day in the service of our country. They...
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Sanford Heisler Sharp Files Four New Federal Tort Claims Act Complaints Against the Army and DoD on Behalf of Victims of Army Doctor Who Sexually Abused Patients
TACOMA, Wash., March 19, 2024 (GlobeNewswire) – Attorneys at Sanford Heisler Sharp today filed...
Archdiocese Of Baltimore Files Bankruptcy To Avert Child Sex Abuse Claims; The Wave Of Reckoning Continues
Child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church has cast a long shadow worldwide. In recent decades,...
Civil Lawsuits In Sexual Abuse Cases: A Powerful Tool For Survivors And Societal Change
Sexual abuse leaves an indelible mark on the lives of survivors. Its repercussions can span a...
Giving Survivors A Voice In Sex Abuse Case Against Military Doctor
The duty to protect and serve does not end at the administrative level of the U.S. military....
Recourse for Victims of Sexual Assault & Harassment in the Maritime Industry
It is no secret that there is a long, well-publicized history of sexual assaults and sexual harassment (SASH) within the maritime industry. In fact, in 2016 and again in November 2021, due to widespread incidents of SASH aboard maritime vessels, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) temporarily halted its Sea Year program – a program in which students are placed…
Is it Too Late to Bring a Claim of Childhood Sexual Abuse?
By now, everyone is aware of the allegations of wide-spread child sexual abuse perpetrated over the years by members of organizations like the Catholic Church and the Boys Scouts of America. For too many years, allegations of child sex abuse against these organizations and others were kept quiet. As more and more victims come forward to seek justice against their…
Widespread Sexual Abuse in Catholic Churches
First, how could the Church keep these “secret files” hidden for so long despite hundreds of lawsuits seeking to uncover the records? The Church, its lawyers, and all those involved in efforts to keep this information silent have blood on their hands and should be ashamed of their conduct in unabashedly protecting pedophiles. This is all the more shocking on the heels…
Four Linked to Porn Website Indicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
OCT. 10, 2019 6:16 PMSAN DIEGO — The owner of a pornographic website, who headed to New Zealand during his ongoing civil trial on claims he tricked young women into making sex videos, was indicted with three others Thursday on federal sex trafficking charges.The indictment was unsealed after three of the defendants linked to the GirlsDoPorn.com website appeared in a…
The Media is Getting it Wrong: Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims and their Victims’ Rights Attorneys Deserve the Credit for Finally Bringing Him to Justice
The media has widely credited the Miami Herald’s “Perversion of Justice” series with “exposing” the unprecedented non-prosecution agreement (“NPA”) in which former U.S. Attorney (and current Trump Labor Secretary) Alexander Acosta agreed to allow billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to avoid federal prosecution for running an international child sex trafficking operation. But the true credit for exposing the shocking details surrounding the “sweetheart” deal belongs…