Judge Anita Brody of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has granted plaintiffs’ motion to compel defendant Devereux Foundation to produce certain records related to alleged abuse at behavioral health facility the Devereux Foundation. Judge Brody held that letting Pennsylvania state law take precedence over federal law would create a “worringly”
As reported in Law360, Law.com, and Courthouse News, on January 11, 2023, Judge Anita B. Brody of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued an order denying multiple motions by defendants’ seeking to dismiss the class action lawsuit brought by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel against The Devereux
As reported in Law360, plaintiffs represented by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel have defeated the University of San Francisco’s attempts to get ex-college baseball players’ claims thrown out of the federal class action lawsuit alleging USF coaches Anthony Giarratano and Troy Nakamura created an intolerable sexualized environment for the team over the course of 22 years, and
On November 16, 2022 from 5 to 7 pm, the Beyond #MeToo Working Group on Corporate Governance, Compliance, and Risk will hold a panel discussion in New York hosted by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP on the topic of gender and sexual violence in sports and academia. “Beyond #MeToo and Athletics: Where We Have
Lieff Cabraser partner Jonathan Selbin will be a featured panelist at Seton Hall Law’s upcoming program, “Calling a Foul: The Safety & Treatment of Women in the Sports Workplace,” to be held Monday, November 21 both in-person and virtually. The program is part of Seton Hall Law’s ongoing Sports Law Speakers Series and will feature an in-depth
As reported by WNYT – News Channel 13, after two staff members at a Devereux Health facility in Red Hook, NY were charged in relation to the recent death of a fourteen year old resident, investigators and the community have started looking deeper into abuse allegations made against the non-profit chain. One of the largest behavioral
DETROIT, MI–On August 3, 2022, U.S. District Judge Victoria A. Roberts issued an Order granting final approval to the settlement of the class action lawsuit against the University of Michigan arising out of UofM campus sexual misconduct. The settlement resolves a class action lawsuit filed in 2021 on behalf of current and future UM students led by
The amended complaint details two decades of aberrant behavior by coaches, and deliberate inaction by the school and NCAA to stop abuse SAN FRANCISCO – (July 15, 2022) Today, nine former University of San Francisco (USF) baseball players joined the class action lawsuit filed in March 2022 against their two (now former) baseball coaches, USF,
Sexual abuse cases continue to mount against Devereux as five new abuse survivors come forward to file individual complaints alleging that Devereux and partner QualityHealth Staffing exposed them to physical, emotional, or sexual abuse by its staff and failed to enact or enforce safety measures or protective policies Lieff Cabraser and Sauder Schelkopf filed a
New Legislation to Open One-Year “Look-Back” Window this November for Adult Sexual Abuse Survivors to Pursue Justice Against Their Abusers and Any Institutions that Protected Those Abusers On May 24, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Adult Survivors Act (S.66/A.648) into law. This legislation will create a one-year look-back window, during which old sexual abuse