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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often called the LDS Church or Mormon Church, continues to face civil lawsuits alleging that church leaders, volunteers, members, and affiliated organizations failed to protect children from sexual abuse.

The central question in many of these cases is not only what the individual abuser did. Plaintiffs also ask what bishops, local leaders, youth-program officials, or central church representatives knew, whether they reported the abuse, and whether internal church systems protected the child or protected the institution.

LDS sexual abuse cases are not consolidated in one national class action or multidistrict litigation. They proceed as individual lawsuits under the law of the state where the abuse, reporting decisions, or institutional conduct occurred. That makes venue, clergy-confidentiality rules, filing deadlines, and the available evidence especially important.

Los Angeles County is at the center of one of the largest government-run institutional child sexual abuse scandals in United States history. Thousands of claims involve children placed in county juvenile halls, probation camps, foster homes, group homes, and the former MacLaren Children’s Center.

Survivors allege that probation officers, facility employees, contracted caregivers, medical staff, and other adults sexually abused children who were under county supervision. Many claims also allege that complaints were ignored, reports were buried, and accused employees were transferred rather than removed.

Our law firm represents survivors of sexual abuse. If you were abused in a Los Angeles County juvenile facility, probation camp, foster care placement, or group home, call us at 888-322-3010 or request a free case review. We can review the facility, approximate dates, deadline, and available evidence.

Uber is defending a growing wave of lawsuits brought by passengers claiming that they were sexually abused or assaulted by an Uber driver. The lawsuits assert that Uber was negligent in failing to adequately screen its drivers before allowing them to transport passengers, allowing sexual predators to become drivers.

We will tell you right up front: our lawyers believe there are many strong claims in this litigation. The first federal bellwether verdicts have now given both sides hard data points. Uber won the first state court trial in 2025, but federal juries in 2026 have found Uber liable in two bellwether cases, including an $8.5 million verdict in Arizona.

The Uber driver sex abuse lawsuits have steadily grown over the last three years and have been consolidated in federal court as MDL No. 3084, In re: Uber Technologies, Inc., Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation, in the Northern District of California before Judge Charles R. Breyer.

Sexual abuse lawsuits at College Hospital in Cerritos, California, are being investigated by survivors and families who allege that vulnerable psychiatric patients were abused, assaulted, neglected, or placed in unsafe conditions while under the hospital’s care. These claims may involve abuse by staff, abuse by another patient, failure to supervise, failure to protect, failure to report, negligent hiring, negligent retention, dependent adult abuse, and institutional negligence.

College Hospital Cerritos is a locked psychiatric facility located in Cerritos, California. The hospital provides psychiatric services for patients of most ages, including people with mental health conditions and people with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are also dealing with psychiatric needs. That patient population is vulnerable by definition. When a facility accepts responsibility for those patients, it accepts responsibility for safety, supervision, staffing, reporting, and protection from abuse.

These cases go beyond the person who committed the abuse. A sexual abuse case against a psychiatric hospital usually turns on what the institution knew, what it should have known, and what it failed to do. Did the hospital ignore prior warning signs? Did staff fail to supervise a dangerous patient? Did employees fail to report abuse? Were vulnerable patients placed with unsafe roommates? Were complaints dismissed or minimized? Those are the questions that decide whether the hospital can be held responsible.