One Great Case
The Groundbreaking Tort That Recognized Intimate Partner Violence w/ Joanna Radbord
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For decades, family lawyers have represented clients whose abuse was not defined by one isolated incident, but by a pattern of control: financial abuse, isolation, humiliation, threats, physical violence, and the slow erosion of autonomy inside the home.
The problem was that tort law did not always know how to capture that kind of harm.
Claims like assault, battery, and intentional infliction…