The Game has lost the sexual assault lawsuit filed against him by Priscilla Rainey , who alleged the rapper forcibly touched her genitals while she was a contestant on his 2015 reality dating show, “She’s Got Game.” The rapper will have to pay $7.13 million to his accuser. An Illinois jury found The Game liable for damages earlier this week after spending four days deliberating on the case. As …
Saying he was treated as a “virtual sex slave” by a Michigan Department of Corrections counselor, a former inmate has filed a lawsuit against the department and the social worker, the mother of his 1-year-old child. Steven Moerman, 44, accuses Susan Clingerman of raping him on a weekly basis, intentionally inflicting emotional …
The USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center at the Karolyi Ranch in Huntsville, Texas, was a dangerous place for young athletes for far too long, a pair of recently filed lawsuits allege. A former USA women’s gymnast filed a civil lawsuit in California Superior Court on Thursday in which she alleges ex-team doctor Larry Nassar …
As expected, three former University of Oregon basketball players have refiled a federal lawsuit that alleges they were treated unfairly and wrongly punished by UO officials after a female student accused them of an off-campus sexual assault in 2014. U.S. District Judge Michael McShane dismissed the players’ suit against the UO in September but ruled it could be refiled if numerous …
No representative of the Roy church, 1950 W. 4400 South, responded to a voicemail from The Salt Lake Tribune requesting comment Thursday. The Tribune generally does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault. Because the man accused of assaulting the woman in this case has not been charged with a crime, The Tribune is not identifying him.
Attorneys for former Baylor University student Jasmin Hernandez have removed former football coach Art Briles and former athletics director Ian McCaw as defendants in a lawsuit filed against them and the university, as the attorneys prepare to file a separate but related suit against Briles and McCaw as individuals. Briles’ attorneys filed a motion to expedite dismissal of Briles from the …
The lawyer for a woman accusing Bill Cosby of sexual abuse in a California civil suit said on Tuesday she has canceled plans to take a sworn deposition from another woman listed as a potential witness against the comedian in a Pennsylvania criminal case. Attorney Gloria Allred said the criminal sexual assault case Cosby faces in suburban Philadelphia takes …
Attorneys filed a civil lawsuit Friday against the City of Oakland in connection with the police sexual misconduct scandal. Jasmine Abuslin, the woman at the center of the scandal, returned to the Bay Area Thursday with civil rights attorneys Pamela Price and Charles Bonner. She is asking for $66 million, documents said.
A former Iowa State University student is suing the school for allegedly mishandling the response to her sexual assault by another student in 2014, saying its insensitive approach and bureaucratic errors further traumatized her. The 21-year-old woman alleges in the lawsuit filed last week that university officials “actively discouraged” her from formally reporting the assault, then took months …
In 2008, a dozen women employed by Sterling Jewelers sued the company. They’re alleging sexual discrimination at the highest levels. The matter, once argued in contractually mandated private arbitration proceedings, has now evolved into a class-action lawsuit, with the trial beginning next month…