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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 ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Boy Scouts of America's $2.46 billion settlement with sexual abuse victims to move forward, lifting a temporary pause imposed in response ...
Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court, decided on June 28, 2000, that held that the constitutional right to freedom of association allowed the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to exclude a homosexual person from membership in spite of a state law requiring equal treatment of homosexuals in public accommodations. More generally ...
Rice did not disclose his abuse until 2020, when a friend made him aware of a class action lawsuit against Boy Scouts of America by those who had been abused as children by scout leaders.
Iowa sex abuse victim in Boy Scouts case could be among hundreds shortchanged by state law. Bill Vahl waited until the last minute to file his claim against the Boy Scouts of America. Silent for ...
Boy Scouts of America membership controversies. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest private youth organizations in the United States, has policies which prohibit those who are not willing to subscribe to the BSA's Declaration of Religious Principle, which has been interpreted by some as banning atheists, [1] and, until January ...
Explorer programs, created by the Boy Scouts of America, are supposed to foster interest in policing. They have faced misconduct allegations involving nearly 200 young people.
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 membership. [2]