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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with 2.3 million youth members and approximately 889,000 adult volunteers in 2017. [1] In 1979 there were over 5 million youths in BSA. The high risk of sex abuse in volunteer youth organizations has been recognized, [2] and, in 1988, the BSA created ...
Background. Cub Scouting is a program of the Boy Scouts of America for boys under the age of 11. The daughter of Gregory J. Wrenn was denied admission to the Cub Scout pack where her twin brother was registered. Wrenn founded the National Council of Youthscouts in 2002 as a "non-discriminatory Scouting organization" and in July 2003 filed for ...
Shenandoah Area Council 598. 850. Massachusetts Bay Federated Council. Boston. Massachusetts. 1976. 1979. Merger of Boston Council, Cambridge Council, Minuteman Council and North Bay Council; dissolved and original councils reformed. 233.
The Supreme Court declined Thursday to halt a $2.46 billion bankruptcy settlement for the Boy Scouts of America, rejecting an emergency request from a group of childhood sex-abuse victims who said ...
In court filings dating back to 2009, the Boy Scouts of America, a New York boys & girls club and 13 separate Catholic institutions each have cited state laws extending abuse victims’ right to ...
Unruh Civil Rights Act ( Cal. Civil Code § 51) Yeaw v. Boy Scouts of America was a high-profile case filed in 1997 before the Supreme Court of California [1] to determine whether the Boy Scouts of America is a business establishment within the meaning of the Unruh Civil Rights Act ( Civ. Code, § 51) or has the right to exclude girls from ...
In 2018, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America filed a trademark infringement lawsuit. Girl Scouts feared the new language would cause confusion and further marginalize the group.
The lawsuit identifies the Boy Scouts of America as a non-party in the lawsuit but states that as early as 1919, the BSA maintained files of ineligible volunteers to keep sexual abusers out of ...