By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney What legal options do bullying victims have when their schools fail to take appropriate steps to protect them? This is exactly what I’ll be talking about tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern Time as part of The BULLY Project’s conference call…
By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney Lawyer bashing is nearly a national sport. But people seem to have forgotten how often civil litigation has led to important social change. And civil litigation is just as important today as it was when a courageous group of individuals…
By Sarah Belton, Cartwright-Baron Attorney Read the comments to the November 8 New York Times article about Public Justice’s Pine Bush bullying lawsuit and some themes are evident. The anti-Semitism these students faced is unacceptable. People expect that when students attend school they will be…
By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney “If being Jewish is so important to you, why would you move into a community that does not have a synagogue? If you want your kids to hang out with more Jewish children or have more tolerance, why would you…
by Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney Two girls, ages 12 and 14, have been criminally charged with a felony in the tragic case of Rebecca Ann Sedwick, a 12-year-old Florida girl who committed suicide last month after enduring a year of online and face-to-face bullying. As…
By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney The start of the new school year has already provided a painful lesson on the effects of bullying. After the first day of school, 15-year-old Bart Palosz of Greenwich, Conn., killed himself in an apparent effort to escape years of…
By Adrian Alvarez, Goldberg-Robb Attorney I recently posted a blog with my colleague Adele Kimmel about an Oregon case filed by Josi Harrison, a high school student who was “sextorted” into sending nude photos of herself to her boyfriend starting in middle school. The crux…
By Adrian Alvarez, Goldberg-Robb Attorney, and Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney We’ve been following the story of Josi Harrison, a 15-year old from Clatskanie, Oregon, who is displaying great courage in speaking publicly about a “sextortion” scheme at her school that resulted in her providing nude…
By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney Far too often, schools are not doing what the law and their own anti-bullying policies require to protect our children from bullying. In fact, eight out of every ten times that a child gets bullied at school, no adult intervenes….
By Adrian Alvarez, Goldberg-Robb Attorney Disability harassment in our schools is a serious problem. A recent study found that students with disabilities are more likely than their non-disabled peers to be bullied. The study also showed that students with disabilities tended to be less popular,…
