At a time when the #MeToo movement is dominating headlines, everyone is talking about sexual harassment — around the water cooler, around the family table, and online. Media coverage of harassment is pervasive, and #MeToo posts regularly go viral ...

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It’s been one year since 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski retired in the face of allegations of improper sexual conduct and abusive practices toward colleagues and law clerks. Since then, much conversation has occurred in Congress ...

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In early October, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its preliminary findings examining sexual harassment in the workplace over the past year. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, no one should be surprised to see the figures rise ...

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  Two employees of an Applebee’s franchise located in North Myrtle Beach have agreed to settle claims that they were repeatedly sexually harassed by their assistant manager. They received  $75,000 and a company promise to improve working conditions. The two ...

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GREENVILLE (AP) A woman who has sued a South Carolina sheriff has agreed to drop the county and county administrator from the claim. A former employee of now-suspended Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis had sued the sheriff, the sheriff’s department, ...

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Once upon a time, the proclivity of male attorneys to make aggressive sexual advances against female clients was so pervasive that it garnered a name—the “fee couch,” implying that cash was not the only currency that such lawyers were willing ...

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Midlands Physical Medicine can be found on Hardscrabble Road in Columbia, which is a fitting location for the office, according to a sexual harassment lawsuit that describes a dysfunctional and inhospitable work environment. A 25-year-old single mother who worked as ...

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LeBlanc v. Sunset Management, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-081-17, 14 pp.) (Shiva Hodges, USMJ) 3:16-cv-00577; D.S.C. Holding: Because the parties did not address whether the behavior of plaintiffs’ supervisor (placing his hand on plaintiffs’ thighs and running his hand up ...

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When The Washington Post published a profile of Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, in March, there was a brief anecdote near the story’s end that sent the internet into overdrive — a revelation that 15 years ago, ...

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Jones v. Eaton Corp. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-118-17, 18 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 3:15-cv-04236; D.S.C. Holding: Because the magistrate judge merely failed to consider the portions of plaintiff’s submissions that would be inadmissible or that were not made on ...

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