Sexual Harassment Law Blog

This month, Dartmouth College announced it had reached a settlement with nine women who had sued the college the previous fall for sexual misconduct by three former sciences professors. President Phil Hanlon announced the $14 million settlement in an email statement. The plaintiffs, who had...

Until recently, “toxic” was about the last adjective anyone would use to describe comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. Now, dozens of former Ellen Show employees have revealed an atmosphere of rampant sexual harassment by executive producers. To date, 47 former employees have...

Just under one-quarter of VA employees have experienced sexual harassment while on the job between 2014 and 2016. One-third of all VA employees saw evidence of sexual harassment. On average, 14 percent of federal employees in other agencies reported sexual harassment during that time period....

Things have not been going well for the Washington Redskins these days. Long under pressure to change a name that many find offensive, team owner Daniel Snyder finally acquiesced. Now, 15 former female employees are alleging widespread sexual harassment and verbal abuse. Top executives did not just...

Going to school shouldn’t be dangerous. We know that in gun violence is so bad in Chicago that cops in certain neighborhoods must set up safe corridors to ensure kids can walk and to and from school without getting shot. In New York City the big danger appears to be students getting sexually...

The University of Rochester is paying 9 former students and professors $9.4 million to settle claims of sexual harassment in the school’s brain and cognitive sciences department. The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed in 2017. That year students and faculty claimed misconduct by Professor...

Brenna Gonzalez started working at Smith & Wollensky, a popular NYC steakhouse, as a college student in 2018. She was only 18 at the time, a young woman full of dreams in the big city. Soon enough, however, the reality revealed itself to be harsher than Brenna’s dreams. In a recent...

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is the state’s top law enforcement officer. His job is to “protect the rights, freedoms, and safety” of everyone in the state. As Curtis Hill just found out, however, even he is not above the law. This week the Indiana Supreme Court suspended...

Each day hundreds of people become victims of sexual assault. Rapes and other sex crimes can occur anywhere. At home, in a car, at college or in alley. If the victim comes forward and the police catch the offender, there is a good chance that the offender goes to prison. Although that may give some...

The former athletes are in their 40s and 50s now, but the years spent in top swimming competitions still affects them. Not necessarily so much the swimming per se, but the sexual abuse they suffered as girls at the hands of well-known U.S. swim team coaches. Six women filed lawsuits against USA...