Monthly Archives: June 2010

Can you be sexually harassed behind your back?

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

It might be obvi­ous, but it seems a bit dif­fi­cult to win on a claim for sex­ual harass­ment where all of the harass­ment occurs behind your back (and by “behind your back”, I mean sit­u­a­tions where the harass­ing behav­ior occurs … Con­tinue read­ing →

Posted in Federal Cases (but not US Supreme Court), Fourth Circuit, Hostile work environment, Medical Industry Litigation, Result for Employer, Sexual harassment, Summary Judgment, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Jackson County jury awards $2.1 million in age case

Posted on June 26, 2010 by

On March 17, 2010, a jury in Jack­son County in West Vir­ginia awarded Jerold John Rice Jr. roughly $2.1 mil­lion in an age dis­crim­i­na­tion case against The Burke-Parsons-Bowlby Cor­po­ra­tion, Stella-Jones US Hold­ings Cor­po­ra­tion, and Stella-Jones, Inc., tried in Judge Thomas … Con­tinue read­ing →

Posted in Age Discrimination, Attorney's Fees, Back and Front Pay Issues, Emotional Distress Damages, Jury verdicts, Punitive damages, Result for Employee, WV Human Rights Act | Leave a comment

Was the boss “merely crude”, or was he sexually harassing her?

Posted on June 19, 2010 by

Sex­ual harass­ment claims fre­quently require judges and juries to dis­tin­guish between “merely crude” behav­ior, which doesn’t vio­late the employee’s rights, and “sex­ual harass­ment”, which does. The Fourth Cir­cuit Court of Appeals addressed that issue in EEOC v. Fair­brook Med­ical Clinic, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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