WASHINGTON — About a month and a half ago, a woman who had just gone through the process of reporting harassment at her job in Washington approached Ally Coll. Coll, the president and cofounder of the Purple Campaign, a group aimed at ending workplace sexual harassment, has been outspoken on harassment issues, and the woman…
At least 11 states, from California to Vermont, passed new protections addressing workplace harassment in 2018 — and many of them go into effect in the new year. California also passed a new law requiring women on corporate boards by the end of 2019. The reforms come as the #MeToo movement has raised the curtain…
One year ago, allegations against Harvey Weinstein prompted a worldwide witnessing of sexual harassment and assault stories on social media, and the #MeToo movement sparked a cultural reckoning. Bill Cosby is in jail. Accused men, from Les Moonves to Al Franken, have been ousted from their positions of power. Allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have left…
The bill aims to end secret, mandatory arbitration proceedings for claims brought by employees against their employers. When local attorney Elizabeth Jubin Fujiwara started representing sex discrimination victims in Hawaii in 1986, it was rare to come across employees who were bound to go through secret arbitration proceedings rather than the court system. But over…
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) — A shocking lawsuit claims Moreno Valley Unified School District officials tried to cover up a 7-year-old special-needs student’s alleged sexual assault. According to the lawsuit filed in March, a special-needs third-grade student at Honey Hollow Elementary School was made to “feel shame, humiliation and remorse” for speaking out about her…
Moreno Valley Unified School District officials have been targeted in a federal lawsuit alleging they attempted to cover up the repeated sexual assault of a developmentally disabled third-grader, even as they failed to keep her and her alleged assailant apart and actually encouraged them to be friends. Additionally, the suit filed by the girl’s mother…
A fourth woman has filed a lawsuit accusing former Soros Fund portfolio manager Howard Rubin of brutalizing her in his Manhattan penthouse sex dungeon, saying he ignored her repeated use of their agreed-upon safe word, “pineapples,” during an S&M session. The woman, who has requested anonymity in her $7 million Manhattan Supreme Court suit as…
Three women filed a $27 million lawsuit on Thursday against Howie Rubin, a Wall Street figure they say raped and beat them, the New York Post reports. Rubin, 62, formerly worked as the portfolio manager for Soros Fund Management and as a trader for Bear Stearns. The women bringing the complaint against him are all…
Another woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that the former investment manager of billionaire George Soros’s company raped and tortured her. She is the fourth to make such claims. The 20-year-old woman, who requested anonymity, said a friend arranged for her to meet Howard Rubin, 62, in November 2015 for dinner and drinks. The friend…
Three women are accusing a New York millionaire of rape and violence after enticing them to visit his swanky penthouse in Manhattan. In a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn on Thursday, Howard Rubin, 62, a successful businessman on Wall Street, was accused by three women of rape and such severe physical abuse that at least one…
