Articles Posted in Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Results

Two sexual abuse lawsuits against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) have been settled. The lawsuits involved allegations of sexual abuse by former George Washington High School athletic director Lawrence Young-Yet Chan towards two students, identified as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2. According to the lawsuit, the abuse reportedly occurred on the…

LGUSD has agreed to pay a total of $5.1 million to two sexual abuse victims who were sexually abused as children by Blossom Hill Elementary School teacher and youth theater director Joseph Brian Houg.

The Los Gatos Saratoga Union High School District has agreed to pay a former student-athlete $3.485 million for the sexual abuse she endured for more than three years. Beginning in 1999, student “Jane Doe” was abused by Los Gatos High School Assistant Track Coach Chioke Robinson, who began grooming her to accept his sexual advances…

Law firm of Cerri, Boskovich & Allard announces that West Valley-Mission Community College District settles for $7.6 million with disabled rape victim The West Valley- Mission Community College District will pay a disabled rape victim $7.6 million as a result of a lawsuit filed by the law firm of Cerri, Boskovich & Allard. The lawsuit…

Sexual abuse lawyer Lauren Cerri achieves a record-setting $65 million jury verdict for her sexually abused client. Case results in a $102.5 million verdict.

A Marin County jury awarded a sexual abuse survivor $10 million while ruling that the Tamalpais Union High School District was 100 percent negligent for the 2003 sexual abuse of a then-high school student by its then PE teacher and tennis coach Normandie Burgos.

The Union School District has agreed to pay $7.5 million to five men who were sexually abused by their Cinnabar Elementary School teacher in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. There is still an opportunity for sexual abuse victims to come forward before the law expires this December. That opportunity remains for all victims, no matter how old, until the end of this year.

Allison Brown was a student-athlete at Valley Christian High School in San Jose when Marshall began abusing her in the early 2000s. In 2021, she hired Corsiglia McMahon & Allard to represent her in a civil lawsuit against Valley Christian, saying the school should have protected her from Marshall. Valley Christian settled Allison’s lawsuit and agreed to make policy changes that she believes will help avoid future sexual abuse problems at the school.

Sexual abuse survivor Stevie Gould says suing the US Tennis Association was an ‘empowering’ experience. Stevie is largely responsible for putting Normandie Burgos, a once well-respected Northern California tennis coach, in prison. Stevie secretly recorded the tennis coach admitting to having sex with a child and turned the recording over to police. Then, Stevie went one step further and filed a civil lawsuit against the United State Tennis Association for allowing Burgos to continue coaching long after the allegations of abuse first surfaced in 2001.

District pays $2.25 million to three girls sexually abused by teacher. The New Haven Unified School District has agreed to pay $2.25 million to three young girls who were sexually abused by their third-grade teacher, Michael William Howey, when they were eight years old. Two of the girls, who were represented by the San Jose…