Where our information comes from
Four kinds of source go into these pages. In order of preference:
- Primary court documents. Complaints, orders, verdicts, plan confirmations, settlement agreements, and the docket statistics of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML).
- Statutory text. The actual language of a statute of limitations or a revival window, not a summary of it.
- Official announcements. County board actions, state attorney general press releases, settlement administrator notices, and regulatory inspection findings.
- Established reporting from outlets with editorial standards, for facts not available in the primary record.
Other law firm websites and content aggregators are not sources here. Neither is an AI-generated summary of any of the above.
Standing rules on how we describe things
- Civil allegations are described as allegations unless a court has entered a finding or a verdict.
- People are presumed innocent of any criminal charge unless and until convicted.
- A settlement without an admission is reported as exactly that, neither an admission nor an exoneration.
- A denial of Supreme Court review is reported as a denial of review, never as an endorsement of the decision below.
- A company’s denial is stated on the page where its conduct is described.
- Every figure carries the date it was accurate as of.
- We do not publish case values, per-claimant estimates, or predictions about outcomes.
How attorney review works
The editorial team drafts from primary sources and notes where each factual claim comes from.
Chris Schroeder, Esq., admitted in Florida in 2001 and in the District of Columbia in 2013, reviews every legal page before publication. He checks the deadlines and the claim structure, confirms the right jurisdiction is described, and reads how each allegation is characterized.
The page publishes with a visible "last reviewed" and "first published" date, plus structured data recording the reviewer and both dates.
Case pages are checked against their dockets and re-reviewed when the record moves: a verdict, a ruling, a settlement, a new filing wave, or a change in the governing statute.
Some pages give no legal guidance at all. Those, with the support pages as the clearest example, are credited to the Sexual Abuse Center Editorial Team and carry no claim of attorney review, because telling you a lawyer had reviewed something that is not legal content would be misleading.
How often pages are updated
| Page type | Review cadence | Triggered by |
|---|---|---|
| Active case pages | Ongoing | Docket movement, verdicts, rulings, settlements, new filing waves |
| Statute of limitations reference | At least quarterly | Any state amending its deadline or opening a window |
| Legal guides | At least annually | Changes in procedure or governing law |
| Support pages | At least annually | Changes to hotline numbers, services, or treatment guidance |
| Closed cases | Retained with status | Marked closed rather than deleted, so the record stays available |
Corrections
Tell us when something here is wrong. Email leads@sexualabusecenter.com with the page and what is incorrect; a source helps but is not required. We correct a factual error as soon as we can verify the right information.
A substantive correction, meaning one that changes what a page says, is noted on the page itself. We do not silently rewrite history. Typographical and formatting fixes go in without a note. A party or company described on this site that believes a characterization is unfair can write to us, and we will review it against the primary record.
On AI
We use software tools in research and drafting. A person checks every factual claim on this site against a primary source, and Chris Schroeder, a licensed attorney, reviews every legal page before it is published. Nothing machine-generated about a legal question goes up unchecked, because in this subject a wrong answer about a filing deadline can sound entirely plausible and still cost someone their claim for good.
What this site cannot do
No page here can tell you whether you have a case, what your deadline is, or what a claim is worth. Those turn on facts specific to you. Everything here is general legal information, and reading it does not create an attorney–client relationship. See our full disclaimer.
