The Latest Breaking News from Jane Doe

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas district court judge on Friday temporarily halted all child abuse investigations into gender-affirming care for trans minors, after a daylong hearing that pitted the mother of a transgender teenager against the state’s lawyers.

Witnesses testifying in court have such "judicial immunity"; this is a longstanding principle, animated by a worry that otherwise angry litigants would otherwise routinely sue witnesses who testified against them, and that the threat of such lawsuits would deter witnesses from coming forward. (Prosecutors can of course still prosecute witnesses…

Defense lawyers for a British national facing trial later this month for helping the Islamic State group torture and behead American hostages are seeking to block testimony from a Kurdish girl held as a slave by the group

In Texas and 37 other states, minors seeking confidential reproductive health care must get a court order. They should be entrusted to make their own medical decisions.

CHICAGO — The new lawyer for Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly has asked a federal judge to overturn his conviction on racketeering charges in New York, saying prosecutors misused a federal statute meant to go after gang leaders and that Kelly’s ineffective lawyers failed to keep hopelessly biased jurors off…

NEW YORK — The unidentified woman accusing former “Saturday Night Live” comic Horatio Sanz of sexual assault told the Daily Beast that NBC also bears responsibility for what she said happened to her at an afterparty for the show when she was 17 and again on a later occasion.

Mechanical engineering students at the University of Kansas this week sent a letter to school officials demanding change after a PhD candidate reported abuse and sexual discrimination.

From Judge Ronald A Guzmán's decision in Doe v. Sandler(N.D. Ill. 2011), which I just came across—as I read it, the judge began the case being open not just to pseudonymity but to sealing (the original TRO, for instance, is sealed, which is very rarely done for court orders), but…

LOS ANGELES — Snoop Dogg is being sued by a former backup dancer who alleges she was the victim of sex trafficking and sexual assault by the rapper and one of his associates.