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11/26/2024

11/13/2024

Kellogg & Van Aken LLP filed a lawsuit against former American Canyon High School P.E. Teacher and Coach Brad Rowell and Napa Valley Unified School District on behalf of 16-year-old sexual abuse victim. “One must ask how Rowell felt bold enough to commit this abuse so openly and obviously and on school campus so many times. We believe former Principal Andrew Goff and other NVUSD employees’ failure to report the abuse – instead choosing to punish the young student who bravely reported it – is part of the answer to that question,” says attorney Kelly Van Aken.

04/15/2024

New Lawyers Division is hosting an event this Thursday at University of San Francisco School of Law titled “Being a Plaintiff’s Lawyer.” Bring your appetite because lunch is included!

RSVP to the email listed in the flyer or contact the address to learn more. See you there!

01/09/2024

On January 18, 2024, Mikayla Kellogg will be speaking at the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association about litigating doctor-patient sexual abuse cases. Register at sftla.org/ally24

- with Kelly Van Aken

05/04/2022

Kellogg & Van Aken LLP has secured a global settlement with USC and former USC men’s health physician Dennis Kelly on behalf of 80 former patients who allege they were discriminated against and sexually abused during men’s health examinations while they were students at USC. Kellogg & Van Aken served as plaintiffs’ liaison counsel and represented the largest number of claimants (57). If you're in the Sacramento area, tune in tomorrow morning at 9am to CapRadio 's Insight with Vicki Gonzalez on 90.9 FM to hear more from attorneys Kelly Van Aken and Mikayla Gow Kellogg.

To see a copy of our press release click here:http://kva-law.com/pdfs/USC_Kelly_Press%20Release_FINAL_4-28-22.pdf
To see a copy of our joint press statement click here:http://kva-law.com/pdfs/2022-04-27_Joint%20Press_Statement_USC_Kelly.pdf

Attorneys for the alleged victims say the cases date back to as early as 1997, with the latest occurring in 2018. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

08/17/2019

A former graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, alleges that Dennis Kelly — the doctor accused of sexual abuse by 48 patients at the University of Southern California — gave him two invasive and inappropriate re**al exams in the 1990s. The former student, Quentin Lee, described his two appointments with Dr. Kelly as “the two most unpleasant medical experiences I’ve had.”

08/08/2019

"At least five men say they complained to the university — far more than the single instance that has been previously reported — including one who described meeting face-to-face with the director of the health center specifically to warn her about Kelly. In addition, a person with direct knowledge of the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that USC’s administration received even more complaints about the doctor’s inappropriate behavior with patients in the four years before Kelly departed USC in July 2018."

Five of those patients, all of whom were students, say they told the university that Dr. Dennis Kelly subjected them to invasive exams and made sexual remarks.

02/21/2019

"Nearly 50 students, faculty and alumni marched from Tommy Trojan to the Engemann Student Health Center in the rain Wednesday to protest the USC’s handling of sexual misconduct cases. The protest was partially prompted by new allegations made last week against former campus physician Dennis Kelly, who resigned last August." https://dailytrojan.com/2019/02/21/students-protest-usc-health-center-abuses/ To learn more about the lawsuit attorneys Kelly Van Aken and Mikayla Gow Kellogg of Kellogg & Van Aken LLP filed last week which prompted this response, visit http://kva-law.com/index.php/sexual-assault-dennis-kelly

As new misconduct allegations surface at the Engemann Student Health Center, students demanded increased transparency and sensitivity training.

02/13/2019

Attorneys Mikayla Gow Kellogg and Kelly Van Aken of Kellogg & Van Aken LLP have filed a civil lawsuit against the University of Southern California (USC) and Dr. Dennis Kelly, a physician who treated student-patients at USC. In the wake of news regarding Dr. George Tyndall’s abuse of female students at USC, a number of male USC graduates contacted us about disturbing allegations regarding the men’s health physician at USC’s student health center: Dr. Dennis Kelly. These individuals allege Dr. Dennis Kelly engaged in inappropriate sexual misconduct and discriminated against them because they were gay and bisexual men. Our clients have shown incredible courage in coming forward with their private and sensitive experiences with Dr. Dennis Kelly and are committed to holding USC accountable for failing to protect its students. We understand that Dr. Dennis Kelly resigned from USC’s student health center in August 2018. We call on USC to come forward with the truth about what they know and when they knew it. We further call on them to conduct a thorough and independent investigation of these serious allegations and USC’s failure to protect its students.

Students put their trust in USC to provide them with safe and appropriate medical care. LGBTQ students are an especially vulnerable population on college campuses. Many of the gay and bisexual men who saw Dr. Kelly were inexperienced with sexual health visits and some were seeing a doctor without a parent present for the first time. We allege that Dr. Kelly took advantage of their vulnerability and inexperience to discriminate against gay and bisexual men and/or to satisfy his own sexual interests. Despite complaints made to staff at USC, USC continued to retain Dr. Dennis Kelly as the only men’s health specialist at its student health center.
We will aggressively prosecute our clients’ claims and take all necessary steps to ensure that all wrongdoers are held accountable.

The Los Angeles Times has written an article about these allegations and our lawsuit, which you can read here: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-new-usc-doctor-sued-20190212-story.html

To learn more about the allegations, visit our website: http://www.kva-law.com/index.php/sexual-assault-dennis-kelly.

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