Embed from Getty Images Thirty years ago, before the Internet, Madonna scandalized society with her brash underwear, explicit sexuality, and the song “Like a Virgin.” Madonna’s clothing, performances, and music videos had a huge cultural and social impact on fashion,…
Court Okays Strip Searching Middle School Students
Embed from Getty Images Most people agree that it’s inappropriate for an eighth grader to be drinking alcohol. What happens, however, when middle schoolers get caught? Do you know that your child could be arrested, strip searched, and thrown…
Allegations of a botched UVA rape investigation at center of a challenge to the Campus SaVE Act
Filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. on March 6, the suit is intended as a landmark civil rights action that could derail the controversial Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act, according to Doe’s attorney James Marsh. Touted as a…
Landmark Civil Rights Action Filed by Campus Rape Victim to Halt New Federal Law
A University of Virginia rape victim represented by the has filed a landmark civil rights action to stop a new federal law from undermining pending federal investigations of UVA’s mishandling of a sexual assault case on campus. Two separate cases—each…
Op Ed: Paroline Raises Difficult Questions for Supreme Court
JURIST Guest Columnist Warren Binford of Willamette University College of Law argues that the US Supreme Court should hold individual possessors of child pornography liable for the full damages allowed under the Violence Against Women Act first to help victims…
On Ryan Loskarn
Last week, The Washington Post published a piece in which Ruth Marcus paints the fate of now-deceased Senate staffer-slash-child porn viewer Jesse Ryan Loskarn as a “tragedy.” After reading what is allegedly Loskarn’s suicide note, Marcus concludes: Yet Loskarn’s example…