3RD CIRCUIT RULES POLICE NOT LIABLE FOR FAILING TO PROTECT OFFICER'S WIFE, Lawyers USA, Boston, MA: September 24, 2007. Copyright © 2007 Dolan Media Newswires.

ABBOTT, TIMOTHY MARK CAMERON V. ABBOTT, JACQUELYN VAYE, the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC: November 24, 2009. Brief of the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment & Appeals Project (DV LEAP), the Battered Women's Justice Project – Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs, Inc., the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Legal Momentum, and the National Network to End Domestic Violence as Amici Curiae in support of respondent. Issue: Amici are concerned about the detrimental applications of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11670 (the "Convention") to abused women and children.

ADMISSION OF EXCITED UTTERANCE TO POLICE OFFICER IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE UPHELD, summarized by Wendy J. Murphy, New England School of Law, Boston, MA: June 14, 2004. Court of Appeals of Indiana, Aaron G. Fowler v. Indiana, No. 49A02-0310-CR-930

Anthony Mastroianni, & C., Appellant, v. County of Suffolk, Et Al., Respondents, 91 N.Y.2d 198, 691 N.E.2d 613, 668 N.Y.S.2d 542 (1997), December 2, 1997.

APESSOS V. MEMORIAL PRESS GROUP

Barney Fife Revisited: Gunless Deputy Loses Job, Denlinger, Rosenthal & Greenberg, LPA, Ohio Employment Law Letter, (volume 15, issue 9), Brentwood, TN: September 2004. Copyright © 2004 M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC. Morrison v. Warren, et al.

BaZE V. REES, COMMISSIONER, KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC: April 16, 2008. Issue: lethal injection for death penalty.

Blakely v. Washington

BOOTH V. HVASS (302 F.3d 849, 2002), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, St. Paul, MN.

BOWEN V. CHEUVRONT – BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA STATE'S ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION, December 21, 2007. This Brief Amicus Curiae was prepared in connection with an issue about which the National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women receives many requests for assistance: a court's preclusion of words and terms in a sexual assault case. In this case, the victim and the prosecution were precluded from using the terms "victim," "assailant" and "rape."

BRIEF FOR ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTED TO PROTECTING THE PUBLIC'S HEALTH, SAFETY, AND WELL-BEING AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS, McDonald, Otis, et al., v. City of Chicago, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC: January 2010. Question presented: Whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is incorporated as against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment's Privileges or Immunities or Due Process Clauses.

Calif. Justices Clear Way for Testimony on Domestic Abuse, Mike McKee, Law.com, San Francisco, CA: August 4, 2004. Copyright © 2004 Yahoo! Inc. Copyright © 2004 NLP IP Company. People v. Brown.

CAMRETA, BOB V. GREENE, SARAH and ALFORD, JAMES V. GREENE, SARAH, the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC: January, 2011. Brief of the Battered Women's Resource Center et al. as Amici Curiae in support of respondents. Issue: Decide on parental rights when children are interviewed & examined for abuse.

City of Canton v. Harris 489 US 378 (1989), Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC.

COATES v. STATE OF MARYLAND, Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, Baltimore, MD: August 31, 2007. Important case re: limits on hearsay statements of SANE / SAFE / SART forensic witnesses.

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA V. GERALD A. SANDUSKY

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. MAKARA, EUGENE S. (APPEAL OF KIDSPEACE CORPORATION) (number 2011 MDA 2008), Pennsylvania Superior Court, August 26, 2009. Decision: due process required for third parties in criminal cases and guardians ad litem MUST be appointed by court for child victims. Case summary by Kathryn Schwartz, 2009.

COMMONWEALTH V. BARROS (disposition), Appeals Court of Massachusetts, 2013. Ruling: An expert may rely on hearsay as long as it is independently admissible and a permissible basis for an expert to use in formulating an opinion.

COMMONWEALTH V. SHANLEY

Crawford V. Washington

CRIME VICTIM LAW UPDATE, National Crime Victim Law Institute, Portland, OR: July - September 2009. Copyright © 2009 National Crime Victim Law Institute.

DAVIS V. WASHINGTON AND HAMMON V. INDIANA

DEAD WIVES TALKING, Wendy Murphy, Murphy's Law, August 17, 2009.

Domestic Violence Centers Retain Confidentiality Right, Emily Umbright, St. Louis Daily Record / St. Louis Countian, St. Louis, MO: April 14, 2004. Copyright © 2004 Dolan Media Newswires.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM FIGHTS FOR HER NAME AT THE SUPREME COURT – CASE ASKS WHO TRULY ENFORCES RESTRAINING ORDERS, Jordan Weissmann, The National Law Journal, New York, NY: March 30, 2010. Copyright © 2010 ALM Media Properties, LLC.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM SEEKING A RESTRAINING ORDER IS PROTECTED FROM RETALIATION BY HER EMPLOYER UNDER OREGON LAW, Victim Rights Law Center, Portland, OR: April 7, 2008.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM ~ CHANGE OF NAME, Bob Durst, New Jersey Law Blog, Stark & Stark Attorneys at Law, Lawrenceville and Marlton, NJ: March 26, 2008. Copyright © 2008 Stark & Stark.

Federal Law Protects Battered Women From Housing Discrimination, COURT RULES, Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY: April 1, 2005.

FRIENDLY HOUSE, ET AL V. MICHAEL B. WHITING, ET AL –– PROPOSED AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF, Legal Momentum, New York, NY: June 11, 2010. In support of plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction to invalidate Arizona's new immigration law, SB 1070.

GEORGIA V. RANDOLPH

HAYES V. GIBBS, First District Court of Appeals, Cincinnati, OH: March 14, 2008. Appellate decision reversing a trial court that refused to consider family support in a civil protection order case.

J.M., PETITIONER-APPELLANT V. MARK BRISENO, RESPONDENT-APPELLEE (No. 1-09-1073), Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Chicago, IL: June 3, 2011. Appellate decision reversing trial court requiring corroboration for sexual assault.

J.S V. J.F. (A-2552-08T2), Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, Trenton, NJ: December 10, 2009. Domestic violence rights for paid escorts.

JANE DOES #1 AND #2 V. UNITED STATES, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach, FL: September 26, 2011. Issue: Victims' rights are enforceable before prosecutor files charges.

JUSTICES SAY COPS CAN ENTER, STOP FIGHT, Thomas Burr, The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake, UT: May 23, 2006. Copyright © 2006 The Salt Lake Tribune. Brigham City, Utah v. Stuart, et al.

KOVALESKI V. STATE OF FLORIDA (No. SC09-536), the Supreme Court of Florida, Tallahassee, FL: October 25, 2012. Issue: Closing the courtroom during the testimony of a child-victim.

'LARIAM DEFENSE' REJECTED IN CRIMINAL FRAUD TRIAL FOLLOWING HEARING, The Mealey's Emerging Drugs & Devices (volume 7, issue 12), Philadelphia, PA: June 20, 2002. Copyright © 2002 LexisNexis. The People of the State of Illinois v. Anthony B. Mertz.

LESLIE V. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE U.S., U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Washington, DC: July 8, 2010. Issue: Right to notice of free legal services for immigration court.

Maria Teresa Macias v. Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Ihde

MARTIN V. HOWARD UNIVERSITY

MASS. SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT UPHOLDS 209A ABUSE-PREVENTION ORDER AGAINST OUT-OF-STATE MAN, Eric T. Berkman, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Boston, MA: January 28, 2008. Copyright © 2008 Dolan Media Newswires.

MASSACHI V. AHL SERVICES, INC., ET AL AND CITY OF NEWARK POLICE DEPARTMENT, Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, Trenton, NJ: November 15, 2007. The New Jersey Appellate Division has ruled that a city can be sued for the murder of a college student after a 911 operator and police dispatcher mishandled a call reporting her abduction.

MCGAUGHEY, ALEXANDRIA V. District of COLUMBIA, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, DC: 2011. Amicus Brief of the DC Rape Crisis Center, the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Victim Rights Law Center, the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence and the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault in support of the appellant. Issue: Amici are advocating for Plaintiff's rights and to ensure that future victims of sexual violence in the District of Columbia are able to gather evidence against their attackers without police interference or other demeaning or disrespectful behavior from law enforcement.

MCSWANE AND HAYS V. BLOOMINGTON HOSPITAL AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND JEAN M. EELMA, MD, Indiana Court of Appeals, Indianapolis, IN: March 12, 2008. A hospital that treated a suspected victim of domestic violence can be sued for discharging her into the care of her former husband who subsequently murdered her, the Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing a summary judgment.

MEN & WOMEN AGAINST DISCRIMINATION V THE FAMILY PROTECTION SERVICES BOARD (Kanawha County, WV, 10/7/09) Talking Points, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, October 14, 2009.

MILLBROOK V. UNITED STATES (No. 11-10362), the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC: March 27, 2013. This unanimous decision will have a major impact on inmates' ability to file lawsuits against federal correctional officers for acts of sexual abuse that occur in federal custodial facilities.

MN Court of Appeals Allows Testimony on Battered-Woman Syndrome, Michelle Lore, The Minnesota Lawyer, Minneapolis, MN: September 6, 2004. Copyright © 2004 Dolan Media Newswires. State of Minnesota v. Vance.

OHIO COURT TOSSES PROTECTIVE ORDER RULING, Liz Sidoti, Associated Press, CentreDaily.com, September 24, 2003. The State of Ohio vs. Lucas [State v. Lucas, 100 Ohio St.3d 1, 2003-Ohio-4778.]  The Ohio Supreme Court ruled "An individual who is the protected subject of a temporary protection order may not be prosecuted for aiding and abetting the restrainee under the protection order in violating said order."

PEOPLE V. COGSWELL, HENRY IVAN, Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, San Diego, CA: October 31, 2007.

PEOPLE V. MAYS, RENAL ALVIN, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Four, Los Angeles, CA: February 15, 2011. Finding: Pregnancy due to rape is "great bodily injury" [among other issues].

PEOPLE V. MACKEY, ARVIN, Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, Division Three, San Francisco, CA: 2011. Issue: Can a defendant's "mental disability" impair his ability to correctly ascertain a victim's consent.

PEOPLE V. ORTIZ, ISAAC, Court of Appeal of California, First District, San Francisco, CA: May 16, 2008. This case offers up the possibility of prosecutors routinely making gender-specific arguments about rape myths even without the use of an expert.

PEOPLE V. TANCREDI, RALPH, Supreme Court of New York, 9th Judicial District, Westchester County, White Plains, NY: March 6, 2008. Issue: Court appoints independent third-party attorney for victim in criminal domestic violence case.

PEOPLE V. TURNER

PEOPLE V. WITHERSPOON, MARCELLUS, Appellate Court of Illinois, 4th District, Springfield, IL: February 26, 2008. Issue: Multiple convictions of attempted rape for one episode.

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN V. BAILEY, JONATHON CHARLES, Court of Appeals of Michigan, October 15, 2009. Issue: Admissibility of expert testimony re: delayed disclosures.

PLAINS COMMERCE BANK V. LONG FAMILY LAND & CATTLE CO., INC. – BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE, National Network to End Domestic Violence, Sacred Circle-National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women, et al., March 2008.

POLICE MAY BE SUED FOR NOT INTERVENING IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES, John O’Connor, Associated Press, New York, NY: April 20, 2006. Copyright © 2006 The Associated Press. Moore v. Green and DeSmet v. County of Rock Island, Illinois Supreme Court, Springfield, IL.

PRIVATE HOUSING COMPANY WON'T EVICT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS AFTER ACLU LAWSUIT, American Civil Liberties Union, Detroit, MI: February 26, 2008. Tanica Lewis v. Northend Village Management Systems, Inc. and Jacqueline Waters. Settlement and other legal documents.

Protective Order Respondent can be Charged with Violating the Order for Having His Attorney Contact the Victim – State of New Hampshire v. Steven Kidder (150 NH 600; 843 A.2d 312; 2004 NH Lexis 37), New Hampshire Supreme Court, Concord, NH: February 27, 2004.

RAYBURN V. WADY INDUSTRIES, INC., AND LORI J. FEY, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eastern Division, Cedar Rapids, IA: April 10, 2008. Issue: Workplace wrongful discharge claim – employee fired for enforcing protective order.

Review OF THE PROSECUTION OF PEOPLE V. CURTIS BERNARD HARRIS CASE NO. KA081214 – FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, Steve Cooley, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, CA: 2008.

SHOT BY EX, SHE WINS $10M SUIT, Chrisena Coleman, Daily News, New York, NY: April 11, 2006. Copyright © 2006 Daily News, L.P.

S.S. AND P.L. V. ROC ALEXANDER AND THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One, Seattle, WA: February 11, 2008. This case explains why schools can't legitimately maintain that a sexual assault policy has nothing to do with Title IX. Indeed, failure to appreciate the legal relationship enhances the risk a school will be subjected to in legal proceedings and sanctions under OCR / DOE's jurisdiction, as well as providing some evidence of a school's "deliberate indifference," which could add to a school's liability exposure.

State High Court Takes Broad View of Mediation Privilege, Kenneth Ofgang, Metropolitan News-Enterprise, Los Angeles, CA: July 13, 2004. Copyright © 2004 Metropolitan News Company. Rojas v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County.

State OF CONNECTICUT V. BLAKE, Appellate Court of Connecticut, Hartford, CT: March 18, 2008. Issue: Important case on privileged records of victims with serious psych history. The judge declines in camera review.

State OF DELAWARE v. PIERCE (case summary), summarized by Jennifer Cochran, Center for Law and Social Responsibility, the Domestic and Sexual Violence Project at the New England School of Law, Boston, MA: April 12, 2008. This case involves a post-conviction trial motion in which the defendant argues that his counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the State's use of the words "victim", "sexual assault" and "crime scene" during trial.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. SHEPHERD, BRIAN A. (number 2008-095), Supreme Court of New Hampshire, August 4, 2009. Case summary by Kathryn Schwartz, 2009. Issues: discovery / production, evidence, privacy.

State of NEW JERSEY v. Guenther, N. J. Lexis 941 2004. Issue: false allegations.

STATE OF OHIO V. CARSWELL, MICHAEL

STATE OF OREGON V. RYAN, JOHN NORMAN, Oregon Supreme Court, Salem, OR: September 9, 2011. Issue: violating a stalking protective order by communicative acts.

State of RHODE ISLAND v. STRAVATo, JOSEPH, Supreme Court of Rhode Island, Providence, RI: December 7, 2007. Important case on discovery obligation re: victim-impact statements prepared prior to trial.

State OF VERMONT v. BRINK, RYAN J., Supreme Court Docket #2006-517, Supreme Court of Vermont, Montpelier, VT: March 14, 2008. Issue: Ruling on ability of prosecutor to allow victim to write answers down and then the prosecutor reads them into the record.

State OF VERMONT v. SHEPHERD (No. 2010-336), Supreme Court of Vermont, Montpelier, VT: October 26, 2012. Issue: Relocation expenses ordered in restitution.

State OF WASHINGTON v. BECKLIN, ANDRE PAUL, Washington Supreme Court, Olympia, WA: May 1, 2008. Issue: Instructions to jury on third party stalking. Dissenting opinion.

State OF WASHINGTON v. WEBB, MICHAEL KENNETH, Washington Supreme Court, Olympia, WA: October 29, 2009. Issue: Conviction and restitution order NOT abated ab initio when defendant dies during pendancy of appeal.

State OF WISCONSIN v. SCHAEFER, RONALD, Wisconsin Supreme Court, Madison, WI: April 2, 2008. Issue: Defendant has no right to "discovery" or even "production" prior to preliminary hearing.

State v. JENT, Montana Supreme Court, Helena, MT: April 9, 2013. Issue: Restitution for medical expenses arising from the victim's post-assault suicide attempt.

StUDENT WRITING AND POLICY WORK – DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW PRACTICUM, School of Law-Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Amicus curiae briefs on various court cases.

SUPREME COURT CLARIFIES THE "ONGOING EMERGENCY" IN MICHIGAN V. BRYANT, Herb Tanner and John Wilkinson, Strategies in Brief (issue 9), AEquitas, Washington, DC: December 2011.

SUPREME COURT CONTINUES TO EXPAND THE SIXTH AMENDMENT CONFRONTATION CLAUSE: BULLCOMING V. NEW MEXICO, Charlene Whitman and Viktoria Kristiansson, Strategies in Brief (issue 6), AEquitas, Washington, DC: December 2011.

SUPREME COURT HEARS CASE ON RAPE AND DEATH PENALTY, Allison Stevens, Women's eNews, Washington, DC: April 17, 2008. Copyright © 2008 Women's eNews.

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR DOMESTIC HOMICIDE CASE, Speaking Up (volume 14, issue 1), Futures Without Violence, San Francisco, CA: January 31, 2008. Giles v. California.

Town of Castle Rock, Colorado v. GONZALES, Jessica

TYSON V. WARDEN, Superior Court of Connecticut, Judicial District of Tolland at Rockville, Rockville, CT: November 5, 2007. Important case on relationship of HIPAA to sexual assault counselor privileges and defense access.

U.S. V. DIXON

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS RULES ON FIRST CASE UNDER CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS ACT (CVRA), John Gilles, Office for Victims of Crime, Washington, DC: January 26, 2006. Kenna v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

UNITED STATES v. CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS (case number 1:09CF154), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, January 26, 2010. Includes good data on: recidivism of sex offenders, child pornography, harm to victims and correlations.

United States v. Emerson, NewsFlash, Futures Without Violence, San Francisco, CA: October 18, 2001.

UNITED STATES V. HAYES

UNITED STATES V. HERRERA, the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Sherman, TX: April 12, 2013. Memorandum opinion and order denying motions In Limine concerning expert witness testimony.

UNITED STATES V. KEIFER (No. 11-3942), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, November 5, 2012. Issue: appeal of a restitution order with the victim intervening in the appeal under the Crime Victims' Right Act U.S.C. § 3771.

UNITED STATES V. MORRIS (case summary), Kathryn Schwartz, 2009. Issues: discovery / production, expert testimony, privacy and victims' rights.

VICTIM IMAGES DID NOT MAR TRIAL, JUSTICES RULE, Robert Barnes, The Washington Post, Washington , DC : December 12, 2006 . Copyright © 2006 The Washington Post Company. Carey v. Musladin.

Victims Say Violence at Home Led to Job Loss, Amy Gardner, News & Observer, Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, NC: December 8, 2004. Copyright © 2004 The News & Observer Publishing Company. Imes v. City of Asheville, CCL Management, Inc., and Asheville City Coach Lines, Inc. – Brief of Amici Curiae.

VIDEOTAPED CHILD TESTIMONY STATUTE UPHELD, Amaris Elliott-Engel, The Legal Intelligencer, February 28, 2008. Copyright © 2008 ALM Properties.

WARSHAK v. USA, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Cincinnati, OH: July 18, 2007. Issue: seizure of e-mail.

Washington Supreme Court Overturns Divorce Punishment of Wife Who Reported Abuse – Dawud A. Muhammad v. Cherry Muhammad (153 Wn.2d 795; 108 P.3d 779; 2005 Wash. LEXIS 274), Supreme Court of Washington, Olympia, WA: March 24, 2005. Copyright © 2005 LexisNexis.

WEISSENBURGER v. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR WARREN COUNTY, Iowa Supreme Court, Des Moines, IA: October 26, 2007.

Wine v. Quezada, New Jersey Law Journal, Newark, NJ: July 18, 2005. Copyright © 2005 ALM Properties, Inc. Issue: family law – attorney's fees – domestic violence.

WISCONSIN V. SVEUM, MICHAEL A. (case number 2008AP658-CR), Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, May 7, 2009. Case okays, with reservations, the use of GPS to gather evidence on a stalker.

Woman Beaten by Husband Wins Suit, Tom Jackman, The Washington Post, Washington, DC: August 18, 2006.

Woman'S LAWSUIT AGAINST JUDGE DISMISSED, Anna Jo Bratton, Associated Press, Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, NE: September 25, 2007. Copyright © 2002-2008 Lincoln Journal Star.

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