This post was updated May 25 at 10:49 p.m.
The University of California Board of Regents agreed to a settlement of more than $370 million with hundreds of plaintiffs in sexual assault and misconduct civil lawsuits against former UCLA OB-GYN James Heaps.

This post was updated April 6 at 10:05 p.m.
An appeals court denied a writ to overturn former UCLA OB-GYN James Heaps’ sexual assault indictment on March 18.

This post was updated Feb. 9 at 11:01 p.m.
The University of California Board of Regents and 203 plaintiffs in sexual assault and misconduct lawsuits against former UCLA OB-GYN James Heaps have reached a $243.6 million settlement.

This post was updated Jan. 6 at 12:09 a.m.
Editor’s note: The article mentions details of sexual assault allegations that may be disturbing to some readers.

This post was updated Dec. 15 at 12:14 p.m.
Editor’s note: The article mentions details of sexual assault allegations that may be disturbing to some readers.

A second court motion to dismiss a sexual assault indictment against former UCLA OB-GYN James Heaps was denied Sept. 17.
Heaps, a former David Geffen School of Medicine faculty member and OB-GYN at UCLA Health, was indicted in late May by a grand jury on 21 counts of felony sexual assault.

This post was updated Aug. 18 at 11:36 a.m.
A court motion to dismiss a sexual assault indictment against former UCLA OB-GYN James Heaps was denied in court Friday.

Lawyers representing former UCLA OB-GYN James Heaps on sexual assault charges filed a court motion Thursday to dismiss Heaps’s indictment.
Heaps is accused by hundreds of women of sexual misconduct and assault while working as a gynecologist at UCLA and was indicted in late May on 21 counts of felony sexual assault.

This post was updated May 31 at 12:34 p.m.
A grand jury indicted former OB-GYN James Heaps on 21 counts of felony sexual misconduct Monday. 
Heaps, who was previously a faculty member at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and an OB-GYN at UCLA Health, has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 100 of his former patients. 
If convicted, Heaps potentially faces more than 91 years in prison. 
An indictment by a grand jury is one of two ways a criminal case can go to trial, said Darren Kavinoky.

This post was updated March 17 at 4:32 p.m.
Hundreds of women who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a former UCLA gynecologist are opting out of a $73 million class-action settlement that was preliminarily approved by a judge in January.