Yes. As reported recently, a jury has ruled in favor of Taylor Swift, awarding the pop star a whopping $1 in her sexual assault case against former radio DJ David Mueller.
After Swift's lawyer Douglas Baldridge and Mueller's lawyer, Gabriel McFarland, delivered their closing arguments and after nearly four hours of deliberation, the jury -- of six women and two men -- decided that Mueller assaulted the then-23-year-old singer by groping her at a 2013 pre-concert meet-and-greet at Denver's Pepsi Center.
Just In! Taylor Swift spoke up, and sexual assault survivors were listening.
Among those paying attention to the recent trial: lawyers and others who work with sexual assault survivors, who found in Ms. Swift’s moment on the stand a potent public example of how to persevere in a fraught situation, and perhaps a way to shift the national conversation around sexual assault.
“Experiencing harassment is an all-too-common thing, experiencing blaming and shaming is an all-too-common thing, but seeing someone so effectively dismantle those arguments, that was exciting,” said Fatima Goss Graves, the president and chief executive of the National Women’s Law Center. Read more at The New York Times.