Posted on 9 Feb 2020
By: Gene Maddaus, Variety Harvey Weinstein is close to a $25 million settlement that would resolve most of the civil litigation against him, including a broad class action case accusing him and his board of directors of a systemic pattern…
Posted on 31 Dec 2019
Any claim Mr. Weinstein could make for payment in chapter 11 could be challenged by lawyers liquidating his studio and Weinstein Co. creditors. Lawyers overseeing the studio’s liquidation have objected to Mr. Weinstein’s pending request for business records that his attorneys say are needed for an accounting of the amount he is owed.
Posted on 20 Dec 2019
But the justice system’s ability to hold those accused of sexual crimes to account is also being tested. The low conviction rates for rape and sexual assault are often blamed on under-reporting. Less than a quarter of estimated sexual assaults are reported to police. No such excuse exists in the Weinstein case.
Posted on 11 Mar 2022
Case update: On August 4, 2023, the US District Court in San Francisco issued a pivotal ruling allowing the case filed by a group of student athletes against the University of San Francisco (USF) and two of the school’s former…
Posted on 11 May 2020
Beth Fegan and Lynn Ellenberger led a class action case brought on behalf of three former student-athletes against John Rembao, their former track and field and cross-country coach at the University of Arizona and the University of Texas-Austin. The lawsuit sought…
Posted on 14 Jun 2021
On February 29, 2024, a Lancaster jury awarded more than $10 million to ten former customers of a popular Lancaster holistic health spa who claimed massage therapist Matthew Schaitel sexually abused them during visits between 2019 and 2021. The 8-person…
Posted on 25 Jun 2020
FeganScott represented more than a dozen women in the entertainment industry who alleged that Harvey Weinstein, The Weinstein Company (“TWC”), other companies owned by Weinstein, and their respective officers, directors, and executives facilitated Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long pattern of unlawful sexual…
Posted on 20 Oct 2020
FeganScott attorneys have successfully represented numerous abuse survivors in pre-suit negotiations, including at the EEOC or state departments of human rights, and in connection with their testimony at criminal grand jury and trial proceedings against their abusers, including: Representation of…