"SCOTUS stalking decision does not apply to non-speech behavior, appeals court rules"
Colorado Springs Gazette quoted Joan Meier on what speech protections should and should not be considered in court.
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"Does It Really "…End With Us?""
Forbes cited research led by Joan Meier on the reality that mother’s claims of abuse in parental court increase their chances of losing child custody.
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Professor Meier appears in "Allen v. Farrow," a new four-part HBO series documenting the accusation of sexual abuse against actor Woody Allen and the aftermath that followed. In episodes 3 and 4, Professor Meier sheds light on the strategies used by abusers, the "alienation" label often used to deny women's and children's abuse claims, and what is going on in family courts today. Her research, based at GW's National Family Violence Law Center, also provides much of the background for the film.