civil liability

In Breest v. Haggis (1st Dep’t 2019), the plaintiff brought civil claims under the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act (VGMVPA), asserting that a well-known filmmaker sexually assaulted her and that the assault constituted “a crime of violence motivated by gender.” The defendants moved to dismiss, arguing that the complaint did not adequately allege that gender bias was a motivating factor.

The plaintiff sued Jeffrey Epstein for sexually abusing her when she was a minor. The complaint stated that she and Epstein engaged in sexual acts on several occasions when she was under 17 years of age.

In the case Doe v. Bank of Am., N.A. and The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., 819 F. Supp.

Jane Doe attended University High School in Urbana, Illinois. Although University High School was a public school, it was affiliated with the University of Illinois, which was responsible for the school’s administrative oversight. From January 1993 through May 1994, while a student at University High School, Jane was a victim of an ongoing campaign of verbal and physical sexual harassment perpetrated by a group of male students at the school. Doe and her parents complained on numerous occasions to officials of both the high school and the University of Illinois.

The appellees, Jean-Luc Brunel and his modeling agency, MC2, sued the appellant, Jeffrey Epstein, in 2015 for lost revenue due to Epstein’s highly publicized criminal charges of sexual 

In the case Virginia Roberts Giuffre v.

Courtney Wild (petitioner) was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse as a minor.

The plaintiffs, Nearing and her two children, appealed the order which affirmed a grant of summary judgment to respondents city and police officers for failure to follow the mandatory arrest provisions of Or. Rev. Stat. § 133.310(3) for violation of a domestic protective order.

Judgment of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, No. 21 Cdo 246/2008 (2009) on employment discrimination.

South Dakota Codified Laws § 21-5-1, liability for wrongful death where damages for injury could have been recovered–unborn child, allows a mother or married parents to recover damages for the wrongful death or injury of their unborn child caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default that would have given rise to liability if the child had survived. The statute expressly recognizes the right to pursue damages for the death of an unborn child when the underlying conduct amounts to at least a felony.