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Employees who engage in sexual activity at work can still claim Sexual Harassment
A central issue that many Plaintiff?s face in bringing claims for sexual harassment in the workplace is whether they were actually offended...

Noya Rimalt, ?Stereotyping Women, Individualizing Harassment: The Dignitary Paradigm of Sexual Harassment Law between the Limits of Law and the Limits of Feminism?
The abstract: This article provides a thorough analysis of contemporary sexual harassment case law in Israel and presents the first systematic study of all reported court opinions on sexual harassment that have been issued following the enactment of The Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law in 1998, 222 opinions in all...

Teen Girls the subject of Sexual Harassment
The press as well as employment lawyers have significantly educated the American public as to the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace...

Researchers Find Rampant Peer Harassment
The New York Times reported last week that more than a third of middle- and high-school students may be victims of sexual harassment by their classmates, according to a new study in the journal Sex Roles...

Sexual Harassment: A Strange, Vague "Tort"
On Wednesday, I discussed how the courts can be downright hostile to employers in sexual harassment cases, playing a game of bait-and-switch regarding whether sexual harassment is "intentional," in order to first make it easier to hold them liable and...

Horseplay or Sexual Harassment?
Under Title IX, schools must take reasonable steps to students from sexual harassment by other students...

Sexual Harassment Policy
Define harassment, outline complaint procedure

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

Unlawful Retaliation for Sexual Harassment Claim
Title VII retaliatory discharge retaliation requires proof of participation in protected activities

Sex Offender Lists
Registries by State and County

Income Tax Changes for 2007
Get Answers to your Income Tax Questions

Can the so-called proprety manager enter my duplex without permission?
The manager (sister of owner) has NO right to be in the apartment unless there w...

Does a lawyer have the right to ask what your religion is when it has nothing to do with the situation?
In divorce issues and the children's well being religion doesn't matte...

How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...

Need urgent answer. Never signed Truth in Lending Disclosure docs - docs at closing had different terms and rates than what we had originally signed up for in the Loan Application. Signed closing docs as assured it would
you have three days to change your mind after closing a re-fi...

How to close probate if a beneficiary can not be contacted to confirm receipt of inheritance?
I believe that you would be clear if you post a notice in the local paper. Check...

Sexual Harassment
(in the workplace)

Catholic Archdiocese
Will Pay $12.6 Million in Sexual Abuse Settlements

Michigan
Settles Female Prisoner Sexual Abuse Lawsuit for $100 Million

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis
Settlement Reached in Six Sexual Abuse Suits

Victim of Sexual Attack Awarded $1.4 Million
Victim of Sexual Attack Awarded $1.5 Million

Teacher Student Abuse
Beaufort County agrees to pay $300,000 settlement to abuse victim.