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Jury still deliberating in rape trial of Idaho ex-lawmaker

Jurors in the rape trial of a former Idaho lawmaker are to begin another day of deliberations after a three-day trial in which the young accuser fled the witness stand during testimony, saying “I can’t do this.”

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Ex-Idaho lawmaker accused of raping intern takes the stand

A former Idaho state lawmaker who was charged with rape after a statehouse intern reported that he sexually assaulted her last year has taken the stand to testify in his defense

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Woman testifying in Idaho lawmaker's rape trial flees court

A woman who said she was raped by an Idaho lawmaker while serving as a legislative intern fled the witness stand during the rape trial Wednesday

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Trial begins for former Idaho lawmaker accused of rape

The trial for a former Idaho lawmaker accused of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern has begun

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How Trump's "Big Lie" was built

Internal documents show Trumpworld conspiracy theorists knew their claims were disproven, disputed or dubious

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Body of missing teenage girl identified 30 years after she vanished

Margaret Ann Sniegowski disappeared in 1992

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Snoop Dogg: Woman files to withdraw sexual assault lawsuit against rapper

Rapper vehemently denied woman’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in 2013

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Couple sues fertility clinic, claiming they had to abort a stranger’s baby

The doctors first allegedly claimed the test was inaccurate before diagnosing the mother with a rare condition, saying her body contained two sets of DNA

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Cowboys and Jerry Jones’ family are front and center in the offseason. Why now?

DALLAS — The private lives of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his family are dominating the offseason after a lawsuit and a letter linked his daughter’s divorce case to an allegation that the billionaire had an affair and fathered a child.

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Snoop Dogg is trying to have sexual assault lawsuit against him dismissed

LOS ANGELES — Rapper Snoop Dogg is trying to put an end to a lawsuit alleging that he and his associates committed sex trafficking and sexual harassment, assault and battery.

Los Angeles Times

Activision Blizzard faces another sexual harassment lawsuit

The suit was filed on Wednesday by Attorney Lisa Bloom.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Texas Observer

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.

Chicago Tribune

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…

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‘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.

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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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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…

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