Sexual Assault

Byline: Steve Terrell Gov. Susana Martinez's nomination of Gregg Marcantel to be secretary of the Department of Corrections apparently hit a snag Monday when Sen. Linda Lopez, who chairs the committee responsible for...

The new year brings a few new laws for employers, including law firms, though the changes are relatively minor compared to past years, according to Christie Totten, an employment law attorney with Davis...

Mayor Steve Bach sent the Colorado Springs City Council a letter this week, outlining his vision for the way the negotiations to lease Memorial Health System should proceed. Bach, first of all, wants...

Sexual peccadilloes have long been road kill on the path to higher office, but the ride's been a bit bumpy this year. First were the ugly tales about Herman Cain, who was said...

The son of a nursing home patient who died after falling down a staircase while strapped in her wheelchair has been awarded $200 million against a Florida facility. 92-year-old Elvira Nunziata was able...

As director for The San Diego Women's Foundation, or SDWF, Tracy Johnson oversees the organization's operations, including building and supporting its membership and philanthropic programs, ensuring that both members and community partners (grantees)...

An Illinois federal jury has awarded a $95 million verdict - including $80 million in punitive damages - to a store worker who claimed she was sexually harassed and assaulted by a manager...

It was about 1 p.m. on a Friday afternoon when Cleveland, Ohio sole practitioner David E. Mills realized he had just a few hours to keep a case alive. A colleague told him...

HEADNOTE Objectives The aims of this study were to examine reciprocal longitudinal associations between exposure to workplace bullying and symptoms of psychological distress and to investigate how self-labeled victimization from bullying explains the...

The hope that peace and reconciliation will prevail in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is what sustains the Banyamulenge people as they recover from the massacre at the village of Gatumba...

JANUARY WikiLeaks: The top-secret security leaks disseminated by Julian Assange's controversial website caused a global furore. The greatest shock for Africa was the revelation of the extent Shell's involvement with the Nigerian government....

HEADNOTE Clint Eastwood directing Leonardo DiCaprio in a grand biopic of legendary FBI honcho J. Edgar Hoover sounds like an awards magnet. Except they think J. Edgar is a love story... HEADNOTE J....

Constitutional Claims and Civil Rights Student and parents sought review of summary judgment granted in favor of school district and college regarding violations of stuent's free exercise of religion and right to due...

A woman who was sexually assaulted after being dragged through the lobby of her own apartment building while the desk attendant was watching TV has been awarded $1 million by an Illinois jury....

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia State Police has launched a new website designed to make information more accessible to the public, announce important notifications, and allow citizens to search and track registered...

LA GRANGE, Texas -- In what is believed to be the largest jury verdict in a personal injury case in the United States, a civil jury today awarded damages amounting to more than...

A new congressional report charged that transportation workers with criminal records have been issued Transportation Worker Identification Credentials because federal officials are being denied full access to the FBI's criminal history database. The...

BOSTON -- Susan M. Finegan, a Member of the Litigation Practice and Chair of the Pro Bono Committee of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., has been appointed Chair of the...

A defendant convicted of drug trafficking could be required to register as a sex offender based on a rape conviction 20 years before the enactment of the federal sex offender registration statute, the...