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Activision Blizzard faces another sexual harassment lawsuit

The suit was filed on Wednesday by Attorney Lisa Bloom.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Chicago Teachers Union suit claims group is a ‘front’ working for the ‘benefit of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’

The Chicago Teachers Union is suing a former top adviser to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a “Jane Doe” over their alleged interference in the May election of union officers.

Chicago Tribune

Texas appeals court again halts child abuse investigations into parents of transgender youth

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas appeals court has again temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents solely for providing gender affirming care to their transgender children.

Tribune News Service

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Texas judge halts child abuse investigations of gender-affirming care for transgender youth

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas district court judge on Friday temporarily halted all child abuse investigations into gender-affirming care for trans minors, after a daylong hearing that pitted the mother of a transgender teenager against the state’s lawyers.

Tribune News Service

Absolute Immunity from Libel Lawsuits for Witnesses Testifying in Private Universities' Title IX Proceedings?

Witnesses testifying in court have such "judicial immunity"; this is a longstanding principle, animated by a worry that otherwise angry litigants would otherwise routinely sue witnesses who testified against them, and that the threat of such lawsuits would deter witnesses from coming forward. (Prosecutors can of course still prosecute witnesses…

Reason

Justice Thomas Argues Again for Reading § 230 Immunity More Narrowly

From Justice Thomas's statement respecting denial of certiorari today in Doe v. Facebook, Inc. [UPDATE: just saw that Jonathan beat me to it, but I thought I'd keep this up; the main extra matters in this post are the excerpts from the Texas Supreme Court opinion, which may help explain…

Reason

Justice Thomas (Again) Urges Reconsideration of the Scope of Section 230

In a statement respecting the denial of certiorari, Justice Thomas suggested some courts are adopting an overly expansive interpretation of the immunity conferred by Section 230.

Reason

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Madonna King: Everyday heroes leading by example in extraordinary circumstances

We can call them John and Jane Doe; individuals whose names we’ve never heard, but whose actions this week deserve to be a living textbook on leadership.

The New Daily

Judge considers blocking Texas policy of investigating medical care for trans children as ‘child abuse’

The new policy has ‘caused terror and anxiety among transgender youth and their families across the Lone Star State,’ says the American Civil Liberties Union

The Independent UK

Defense lawyers seek to restrict testimony from ISIS 'slave'

Defense lawyers for a British national facing trial later this month for helping the Islamic State group torture and behead American hostages are seeking to block testimony from a Kurdish girl held as a slave by the group

The Independent UK

My Abortion Experience Inspired Me to Fight for Underage Youth

In Texas and 37 other states, minors seeking confidential reproductive health care must get a court order. They should be entrusted to make their own medical decisions.

Texas Observer

R. Kelly attorney says New York prosecutors misused RICO statute, blasts defense team as incompetent and conflicted

CHICAGO — The new lawyer for Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly has asked a federal judge to overturn his conviction on racketeering charges in New York, saying prosecutors misused a federal statute meant to go after gang leaders and that Kelly’s ineffective lawyers failed to keep hopelessly biased jurors off…

Chicago Tribune

‘He abused me all over Saturday Night Live,’ Horatio Sanz accuser claims

NEW YORK — The unidentified woman accusing former “Saturday Night Live” comic Horatio Sanz of sexual assault told the Daily Beast that NBC also bears responsibility for what she said happened to her at an afterparty for the show when she was 17 and again on a later occasion.

Tribune News Service

Students demand KU correct 'wrongdoings' after grad student details Title IX failings

Mechanical engineering students at the University of Kansas this week sent a letter to school officials demanding change after a PhD candidate reported abuse and sexual discrimination.

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Reason

Sealing Kinda Sus

From Judge Ronald A Guzmán's decision in Doe v. Sandler(N.D. Ill. 2011), which I just came across—as I read it, the judge began the case being open not just to pseudonymity but to sealing (the original TRO, for instance, is sealed, which is very rarely done for court orders), but…

Los Angeles Times

A former Snoop Dogg backup dancer sues him for alleged sexual assault, sex trafficking

LOS ANGELES — Snoop Dogg is being sued by a former backup dancer who alleges she was the victim of sex trafficking and sexual assault by the rapper and one of his associates.

The Guardian - UK

Chris Brown sued for allegedly drugging and raping woman on yacht

An unidentified plaintiff alleges the R&B singer assaulted her on a yacht docked at the Miami home of P Diddy

The Independent UK

Chris Brown sued for £14 million for allegedly drugging and raping woman on yacht

R&B singer’s accuser claims she became disorientated and ‘physically unstable’ after he gave her a drink

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Florida Judge tried to deny teen abortion because of her high school grades

‘Jane Doe’ successfully appeals decision as judges refute case behind original ruling

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