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The 2003 Nisha Sharma dowry case was an anti-dowry lawsuit that has been cited as an illustrative example highlighting the potential for misuse of the IPC 498A law in India. In this case, Nisha Sharma accused her prospective groom, Munish Dalal, of dowry demands, raising questions about the dynamics and fairness of such allegations within the ...
Thurman v. City of Torrington, DC, 595 F.Supp. 1521 (1985) was a court decision concerning Tracey Thurman, a Connecticut homemaker who sued the city police department in Torrington, Connecticut, and claimed a failure of equal protection under the law against her abusive husband Charles "Buck" Thurman, Sr.
In March 2010, a wife won a $9 million suit against her husband's mistress. [15] A Mecklenburg County jury awarded $1.4 million in May 2001 to a former wrestling coach against P, after the coach's wife left him for P (the jury verdict was later reduced by the North Carolina Court of Appeals as excessive). A year 2000 verdict of $86,250 for ...
“We need to take crimes against women and children more seriously — crimes like human trafficking, domestic violence, and child abuse,” Harris also posted in May 2017.
Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, which has been in existence since 1860 and deals with rape, exempts men from charges of rape against their wives unless the woman in question is a minor.
R v R [1991] UKHL 12 is a House of Lords judgement in which R was convicted of attempting to rape his wife but appealed his conviction on the grounds of a marital rape exemption whereby R claimed a husband cannot be convicted of raping his wife as his wife had given consent to sexual intercourse through the contract of marriage which she could not withdraw.
An actress and her husband have been found guilty of a string of child sex charges after jointly grooming and abusing a teenage girl. Zara Phythian, who featured in the 2016 Marvel movie Doctor ...
The change in law was the result of advocacy by second wave feminist organizations and victim advocacy groups in Nebraska, and was introduced to the legislature by Senator Wally Barnett. [2] Some laws of the 1970s required the husband and wife to no longer be living together for marital rape charges to be brought.