Federal Judge Vacates Stay In Taekwondo Class Sex Abuse Case

Mealey's (November 9, 2020, 12:01 PM EST) -- DENVER — A federal judge in Colorado in a Nov. 5 docket entry lifted the stay in a putative class complaint by certain Team USA’s Olympic taekwondo athletes who have alleged more than two decades of sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking, writing that the plaintiffs “misleadingly represented” that counsel for one of the defendants did not oppose the stay (Heidi Gilbert, et al. v. USA Taekwondo, Inc., et al., No. 18-981, D. Colo.)....