Tag Archives: Sexual assault

The federal government is safe from most lawsuits under the concept of immunity. But it may not be safe from itself: Its own lawyers decided an indigent prisoner who claims prison guards sexually assaulted him just might be right that he should be allowed to sue the federal government. The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 19 heard oral arguments in Millbrook v. United States, a remarkable case originally brought by Kim Millbrook, a prisoner without a lawyer who reportedly hand-wrote …

Apparently India isn’t the only place where girls are sexually assaulted on buses. As six suspects in the fatal gang rape of a student on a public bus in Delhi stand trial, on this side of the world, a jury in Florida awarded $1.7 million to a girl who was attacked by a ninth grader when she was only 3 1/2 years old. The girl’s parents sued the Palm Beach County school board. The name of the victim was not …

In the largest police misconduct case in Chicago history, the city will pay $22.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a woman who was raped and fell from a seventh-story window after officers left her in a high-crime area. Christina Eilman was a 21-year-old college student when she was arrested at Midway Airport in May of 2006 because she was acting strangely and violently. She was taken to a holding cell where she continued babbling incoherently and smearing menstrual blood …

The parents of a girl who was raped by her youth soccer coach when she was 13 are suing the local soccer league and its national umbrella organization for negligence in failing to adequately vet the coach before allowing him access to children. The lawsuit, filed in Santa Clara County, California, names U.S. Youth Soccer and the California Youth Soccer Association-North, claiming that if they had a policy of conducting background checks they would have discovered that coach Emanuele Fabrizio …

Four students are suing an Illinois school district over hazing accusations at a Des Plaines high school that include reports of victims who were sodomized by their sports teammates. School officials looked the other way while players on the baseball, soccer and potentially other teams were subjected to an extreme form of hazing that went at least as far back as 2007, the lawsuit alleges. The hazing came to light when three players were allegedly sodomized with fingers and sticks …