Briefs

CHILD USA together with the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, Zero Abuse Project, Oregon Abuse Advocates & Survivors in Service, National Crime Victim Law Institute, and The National Center for Victims of Crime submitted this amicus brief urging the Court to deny...

CHILD USA wrote this amicus brief in support of an Application for Invocation of King's Bench Jurisdiction filed by Governor Tom Wolf and Acting Secretary Leigh Chapman in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in which they ask the Court to invalidate the General...

CHILD USA submitted this brief in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees arguing that Twitter knowingly operated as a distributor in the modern Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) marketplace and that they should not be immune from liability under the Communications Decency...

CHILD USA, together with non-profits and law firms dedicated to victim advocacy, wrote this amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the District Court's denial of Twitter's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' sex trafficking claims and to allow...

CHILD USA wrote this amicus brief in support of Plaintiff-Appellant arguing that considerations of foreseeability and public policy demand a duty be imposed on educational institutions to compel them to act in furtherance of their child protection responsibilities...

CHILD USA wrote this amicus brief to supply the New York Court of Appeals with the legislative and public policies undergirding the New York Child Victims Act. It also presents current research on the impact that abuse has on individuals, including the many years it...

CHILD USA together with CHILD USAdvocacy, The Center for Child Policy, The Kempe Foundation, and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation wrote this brief in support Plaintiff's Motion seeking to unseal the deposition testimony of Lawrence Hecker, a known pedophile...

CHILD USA, together with the National Center for Victims of Crime, filed this amicus brief in support of Plaintiff-Appellant challenging the lower court's ruling that reduced the jury's verdict on punitive damages to the maximum amount of $250,000 allowed under state...

CHILD USA filed this amicus brief in support of Plaintiff-Appellant challenge to the lower court's ruling that victims of sexual abuse are limited to filing only a single Child Sexual Abuse Act (“CSAA”) claim under New Jersey’s two-year revival window, and that all...

CHILD USA filed this brief supporting the Appellant's appeal to the federal Fifth Circuit. The Appellants argue that the Eastern District of Louisiana erred in granting the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss. CHILD USA argues that Louisiana's Act 322 does not violate...