Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story is a 1996 television movie based on Ellison v. Brady, a landmark sexual harassment case. This lawsuit set the precedent for the "reasonable woman" standard in sexual harassment law which allows for cases to be ana
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Brooks School was founded in 1926 by the Reverend Endicott Peabody, the headmaster of Groton School at the time, and was named after Phillips Brooks(1835–1893), a well-known clergyman and author from North Andover, Massachusetts, who briefly served as Bis
Continue reading >>In employment law, hostile environment sexual harassment refers to a situation where employees in a workplace are subject to a pattern of exposure to unwanted sexual behavior from persons other than an employee's direct supervisor where supervisors or man
Continue reading >>Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. was the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States. It was filed in 1988 on behalf of Lois Jenson and other female workers at the EVTAC mine in Eveleth, Minnesota on the state's northern Mesabi
Continue reading >>Alexander v. Yale (1980) was the first use of Title IX in charges of sexual harassment against an educational institution.[1] It further established that sexual harassment of female students could be considered sex discrimination, and was thus illegal.
Continue reading >>The Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, also dubbed Weinergate, began when Democratic U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner used the social mediawebsite Twitter to send a link to a sexually suggestive picture to a 21-year-old woman from Seattle, Washington.
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