The Vatican Has Updated Its Laws to Target Sexual Abuse in the Church, Yet Still Leaving Gray Areas to Be Explored The revision of "Book VI: Penal Sanctions in the Church" was promulgated June 1, 2021 and will go into effect on December 8, 2021, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Book VI is one of [...]
Earlier, we explained why you should contact a lawyer promptly after an injury-causing incident, and we offered some specific illustrations of the reasons why this is especially true for medical malpractice cases (we often call them “patient safety” cases) and motor vehicle and truck accident cases. Experienced medical malpractice lawyers and experienced truck accident lawyers know [...]
Human Trafficking Victims Are Suing Well-Known Hotel Chains for Profiting from What the Hotels "Knew or Should Have Known" Was Taking Place Human trafficking is "the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act."(1) Human traffickers earn global profits of approximately $150 billion a year, $99 billion of [...]
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the oldest and largest youth organizations in the United States. In 2017, there were nearly 2.3 million youth members across the country and nearly 1 million adult volunteers leading those members. Over the years, the organization has changed and no longer mirrors the program that was originally founded [...]
My Father Is A Catholic Priest The problem of sexual abuse of children and young adolescents burst into the public’s consciousness in late 1984 during the trial of Gilbert Gauthe of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana. Over the last three decades, evidence has been disgorged from the Catholic Church demonstrating an alarming effort at concealment that [...]
In February of 2019, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a Bill lengthening the statute of limitations for childhood sex abuse survivors. This law effectively allows increased time for survivors of childhood sex abuse to file civil lawsuits against their abusers and the negligent institutions that harbored these perpetrators. Prior to this legislation, the [...]
Victims of Pennsylvania Child Sex Abuse by Clergy Can Seek Compensation Through The Survivors’ Compensation / Reparations Fund Program When the Pennsylvania State Grand Jury report was released earlier this year, it highlighted horrible accounts of child abuse involving more than 300 priests throughout six Dioceses in the State of Pennsylvania. More than 1,000 child victims [...]
At the 2016 meeting of the National Crime Victims Bar Association, Slade McLaughlin (far left) and Paul Lauricella (far right) moderated a discussion on the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal depicted in the Oscar winning movie, Spotlight, with the reporter, attorney, and victims depicted in the film. The conference was held in conjunction with the National Center [...]
