A Cornell defendant is asking a New York court to remove Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor for bias. Here is how New York decides whether a prosecutor can be removed, and why the bar is so high.
Months after former band members sued him, Ramón Ayala Jr. surrendered to Texas police on a sexual assault charge. Here is how the Texas charge, the emergency protective order and the civil and criminal clocks work.
A former Chi Phi member named in the Cornell Jane Doe lawsuit says the claims against him came too late. Here is how New York's one-year and twenty-year deadlines work, and why the criminal and campus clocks are different.
A bipartisan House group is rewriting Congress's sexual harassment rules after a run of ethics cases. Here is how a staff claim, an ethics inquiry and a member's personal liability actually work today.
A judge let Cornell's Jane Doe keep her name out of her lawsuit and invited the seven accused men to seek the same. Here is how pseudonyms work for the accused, and why it is harder for them.
Utah defensive tackle Jamal Wallace was suspended after an arrest on intimate-image counts while police look into a rape allegation he denies. Here is how Utah's distribution law works and why booking is not charging.
Sally Yates is asking the Cornell community for information and plans campus visits. Here is who the reviewer works for, whether your FERPA file goes to her, and how to handle an interview request.
Livestreamer Clavicular pleaded not guilty to rape on Cape Cod and was released on $10,000 bail with no-contact, no-posting and passport conditions. Here is how release conditions work and what a probable cause hearing is.
Tompkins County voted to fund an outside review of how its DA handles sexual assault cases. Here is why a decision not to charge is not the end, and how a reopened criminal case touches a campus file.
Livestreamer Clavicular faces a Massachusetts rape arraignment while his accuser's Florida civil suit drops its sexual assault count. Here is how parallel criminal and civil cases collide.
A former Cornell fraternity president was dropped from the Jane Doe lawsuit. Here is how a defendant leaves a New York case, what "with prejudice" means, and how campus dismissals differ.
A federal judge let the decades-old ring boys abuse suit against WWE and the McMahons go forward, rejecting a constitutional attack on Maryland's Child Victims Act. Here is what revived claims mean for the accused.
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