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The United States Supreme Court and various U.S. state courts have decided several cases regarding pornography, sexual activity, and reproductive rights. The trend has been one of courts striking down states' attempts to regulate sex. The following is a list of noteworthy sex-related court cases in order by date.
The Connecticut Superior Court held hearings in November 2009 on procedures and privacy safeguards. The court ordered that the documents be released on Dec. 1, 2009, in CD form, to be given to the four newspapers—the Hartford Courant, the New York Times, Boston Globe and Washington Post—that had originally filed the lawsuit seeking to force the diocese to open the records to public ...
New York City Council member Dan Halloran (R) convicted of taking bribes and orchestrating payoffs. Sentenced to 10 years. (2014) [207] [208] New York City Council member Larry Seabrook (D) On February 9, 2010, a federal grand jury indicted Seabrook on 13 counts of money laundering, extortion, and fraud. [209] Seabrook was convicted on nine ...
A former FBI agent was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper. Alabama's state police hired Christopher Bauer ...
The various charges generally allege attempted sexual assault. The arrest of that many people on charges of that nature in a short period of time is unusual and significant, Centre County District ...
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The Superior Court ruling could be appealed to the state Supreme Court. The priests Finnegan and Gaughan accuse of molesting them are now dead. Both filed their suits soon after a three priests and a high-ranking official of the archdiocese were charged by the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office with failing to protect children from priests ...
Sep. 13—A former Derry Township man already behind bars for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl was arraigned Wednesday on similar accusations involving girls ages 12, 14, 15 and 16 ...