The XX Factor : courts

Rape-Proof Pants?

Ellen Tarlin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:47:00 GMT

BBC News reports that a court in Rome ruled that “ Women in jeans 'cannot be raped.' “ What a wonderful coup this information will be for parents of girls. Just imagine, you no longer have to worry about preserving your daughter’s virtue—just buy her...(read more)

Yet Another Legal Black Hole

Dahlia Lithwick — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:27:00 GMT

Via Matt Yglesias , a story about Jamie Leigh Jones, a former employee of Haliburton/KBR who told ABC news she was gang-raped at a KBR camp in the Green Zone in Iraq, then held in a shipping container without food or water and threatened with termination...(read more)

Yet more on Darren Mack trial

Dahlia Lithwick — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:50:00 GMT

Opening statements in the Darren Mack trial yesterday revealed some sort of crazy quilt defense strategy that seems to involve tossing out at least 12 alternative theories and hoping one of them resonates with each the jurors. Of course the blame-the-victim...(read more)

Darren Mack Trial and Fathers Rights

Dahlia Lithwick — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:59:00 GMT

I must confess to a more than passing obsession with the Darren Mack trial, which gets under way today in Las Vegas . Mack stands accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife Charla with their 7-year-old daughter upstairs in the home, then shooting...(read more)