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Civil Litigation

Oct. 31, 2018

Teacher sex abuse suit settles on eve of trial

In what the plaintiff’s attorneys are calling the largest payout by the Los Angeles Unified School District to a sexual abuse victim, a young woman who was assaulted in her teens by her math teacher was awarded $5 million on the eve of trial.

Teacher sex abuse suit settles on eve of trial
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In what the plaintiff's attorneys are calling the largest payout by the Los Angeles Unified School District to a sexual abuse victim, a young woman who was assaulted in her teens by her math teacher was awarded $5 million on the eve of trial.

The settlement, which the plaintiff's attorneys said was reached on Oct. 26, comes after an appellate court reversed a superior court jury verdict favorable to the district, whose counsel sought...

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