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The People of the State of New York v. Strauss-Kahn was a criminal case relating to allegations of sexual assault and attempted rape made by a hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, against Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the Sofitel New York Hotel on 14 May 2011. On 19 May 2011, Strauss-Kahn was indicted by a grand jury; after posting $1 million bail [1 ...
In Texas, sexual assault against a person under 17 years of age is a second degree felony, and aggravated sexual assault a first degree felony. [17] Eventually, 21 people were charged with crimes related to the gang rape. [ 18 ]
The New York Times described the statement as a "cri de coeur against the role of privilege in the trial and the way the legal system deals with sexual assault." [73] On June 3, 2016, Palo Alto Online [31] and BuzzFeed [47] published Doe's full statement. BuzzFeed's publication rapidly went viral, achieving over 8 million views in three days ...
Doe v. MySpace, Inc., 528 F.3d 413 (2008), is a 2008 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that MySpace was immune under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 from liability for a sexual assault of a minor that arose from posts on the MySpace platform. [1]
New York did pass a law in 2022 allowing sexual assault victims to file civil suits, but the lawsuit that eventually yielded the $83.3 million award was filed by Carroll in 2019.
A sexual assault charge against a former Exxon Mobil Corp executive was dropped after a suburban Houston grand jury declined to issue an indictment, an official of the Montgomery County, Texas ...
June 19, 2024 at 12:31 PM. TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas - The Travis County District Attorney will not prosecute a sexual assault case from August 2020. DA Jose Garza said he believes the victims, but the ...
In November 2008, Jon was convicted at the Los Angeles Court on one count of rape and multiple counts of lesser sexual offenses. He was sentenced to 59 years to life. Jon was facing similar charges in New York and Texas, but before the trial began in 2013, the New York prosecutors accepted his guilty plea, and he was sentenced to time served.