As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close, we look back on the horror stories survivors bravely shared and the things we’ve learned about the resources organizations offer to victims and the steps law enforcement take toward justice. And we daydream, perhaps naively, of a world in ...
by Keith C. Burris Almost everyone has heard the F. Scott Fitzgerald line, “There are no second acts in American lives.” I think he was talking about second chances for people like Jay Gatsby — the wealthy, famous and beautiful. But, wait a minute, he usually does. Fitzgerald ...
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the City of Morgantown released a sexual harassment incident report without redacting the victim's name, which was then posted online. For that "outrageous breach of privacy" the victim, identified only as H.M., filed a lawsuit against ...
A former employee at Ruby & Ketchy's is suing the Cheat Lake area restaurant and its president for sexual harassment. The suit claims the president of Ruby & Ketchy's Inc., Leslie Nicholson, repeatedly made sexual comments and inappropriately touched Susan Corbin while she worked ...
Joon Kim, a former Manhattan U.S. attorney, and employment lawyer Anne Clark are now special deputies to the first deputy attorney general charged with investigating allegations of sexual harassment against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. They have a website, agindependentinvestigation.com, ...
by Virginia Heffernan Movements are not trending topics. They’re not celebrity scandals that excite the mediasphere like brush fires. They are paradigm shifts, and they do their work through legislation, court proceedings, disciplinary measures and the evolution of social ...