Gynecological exams are important parts of women’s health. They are also often uncomfortable. But UCLA gynecologist James Heaps took his victims’ discomfort one step further, turning a necessary medical exam in to sex abuse. Now a proposed class action settlement could give all his patents some long-awaited relief. UCLA Gynecologist Heaps Took Sexual Advantage of Patients Julie Orsatti says she…
On April 11, 2021, a Black Deaf mother, Andrea “Dre” Hollingsworth, who was with her 11-year-old twins, was detained by North Las Vegas Police officers after being pulled over. The video of this police encounter depicts that the officers instructed Dre’s young children to act as interpreters. In an interview with the Daily Moth, Directors of Eisenberg & Baum’s Deaf Law…
The State Bar of Washington — the organization that oversees and regulates all lawyers in the state — received a scathing report, criticizing how it mishandled the investigation of an employee’s sexual harassment claim. Find out what happened, and what employees can do when board members take advantage of their position. WSBA Staff Member Accuses Board Member of Sexual Harassment…
NYPD Has Published Final Policies on Surveillance Technology Thanks to the passage of the Post Act in June, 2020, the NYPD was required to publish the department’s draft policies on the use and impact of every surveillance technology currently in use — 36 tools in total — within 180 days. Upon publishing the draft policies, Eisenberg & Baum gathered and…
A lawsuit filed late last year in Canada’s British Columbia Supreme Court against Vancouver’s Roman Catholic Archdiocese is once again drawing attention to the sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. The civil lawsuit, while filed under Canadian law rather than U.S. or New York law, raises questions about whether the Church is responsible for its priests’ sexual actions, and…
Cyberbullicide, defined by Cyberbullying Research Center’s Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin as “suicide indirectly or directly influenced by experiences with online aggression” (Hinduja & Patchin, 2009),” has been on the rise in recent years: “One major outcome that we have seen in recent years has been the increase in suicides related to an experience with bullying.” The phenomenon of cyberbullicide,…
An intellectual or developmental disability shouldn’t have any effect on your access to necessary medical care, but patients with Down syndrome and other conditions routinely face organ transplant discrimination. Now states and the federal government are taking on the rights of disabled Americans, to make sure they have equal access to the organ transplant list. Transplant Centers Pass Over Patients…
STOP AAPI Hate has created a petition, written with Eisenberg & Baum, LLP Partner
Register to the Panel Discussion “Shining A Light On Kidney Disease In The Black Community” Saturday, March 20th at 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT Live Q&A discussing the documentary film A Dance with Destiny Join panelists including Juyoun Han to discuss A Dance with Destiny, a documentary about a life-saving discovery in the fight against kidney disease produced by Shining…
Being yourself at work shouldn’t mean dealing with daily insults, threats, and mistreatment. But in a FedEx lawsuit, a warehouse worker coming out as transgender at work meant that former mates and coworkers turned on her, forcing her out of a job she used to love. UK FedEx Lawsuit Calls Out Transgender Discrimination in Warehouse Toy Prendergast had worked at…