The advocates are right: Passing the Adult Survivors Act is absolutely essential if we are to provide justice to the countless people, mostly women, in New York State who have been assaulted and ...

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed a sexual assault lawsuit, finding the Adult Survivors Act window preempts a New ...

That's in part because a New York law, the Adult Survivors Act, is due to expire on Friday. Here's what to know. The law, which was signed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul last year, temporarily ...

NEW YORK — Nearly 200 survivors of sex abuse ... saying there's been no action from the state or city to make jails safer. The Adult Survivors Act signed in 2022 gave survivors one year to ...

Her lawsuit was also filed under the New York’s Adult Survivors Act and accused him of exhibiting “uncontrollable rage” and claimed he “frequently beat Ms. Ventura savagely,” something ...

The New York Adult Survivors of Sexual Assault law, which opened on Thanksgiving 2022 and closed at midnight on Thanksgiving this year, has allowed accusers from decades-old encounters to seek ...

The legislation, known as Gittel’s Law broadens New York State’s penal code to include new categories of licensed mental ...

Sarhadi's lawsuit was filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, which was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul in 2022 and creates a one-year window for survivors of sexual assault that occurred when ...

Helping protect child victims and find missing persons has been one of the areas that I’ve been proud to focus on over my legislative career. As Chair of the Assembly Minority Task Force on ...