Sexual Harassment Law Blog

Harassment based on gender can take many forms. In hospital settings or in medical school, a wide range of inappropriate behaviors have been observed. Sometimes it is hard to establish what path to take when you perceive you may have been a victim of sexual harassment.
First of all, we need a...

There are few settings so rife with abusive behavior by people in positions of authority as medical residencies. The culture, insiders say, prompts residents to view harassment as a necessary evil for ‘rookies’; if they can endure it, they’ll make it in the competitive environment...

The Nevada Gaming Commission (“NGC”) fined Wynn Resorts a record-breaking $20 million over the company’s failure to investigate sexual harassment and assault allegations against founder Steve Wynn.
Wynn, 77, who resigned from his position as chairman and CEO of the company...

The Perry School District in Perry, OK has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the families of 14 youngsters who were inappropriately touched by an octogenarian teacher’s aide. The incidents occurred at the Perry Elementary School, and the girls involved were in the fifth grade. A total of 16...

Can I Sue a Bar or Restaurant if I was Raped by an Employee? Rape and sexual violence have no borders. They can occur anywhere. A Houston lawyer has stepped forward and accused a Brennan’s restaurant bartender of spiking her drink and then raping her in her own apartment. The case has...

It wasn’t long ago that Ernst & Young was considered a paragon of workplace virtue.
The accounting and consultant firm touted its place on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, with a managing partner describing the company as having an “inclusive...

On Monday, February 4, 2019, the Iowa Appeals Board voted to approve two seven-figure settlements for workers who had repeatedly been sexually harassed by Dave Jamison, the state’s former Finance Authority Director. Under the terms of the settlement, the state’s former business...

A former female guard at a Chattanooga prison has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that the Silverdale Detention Center was a sexually hostile work environment. The facility is run by CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America, a company notorious for the number of...

Mike Chase, 72, a candidate for mayor in Knoxville, Tennessee and owner of several restaurants is being sued for sexual harassment and a hostile work environment by one of his wait staff. The server, Ana Tipton Budzynski, along with her husband, Alexander Budzynski, filed the lawsuit in early...

The mayor of East Haven, Connecticut, Joseph Maturo, Jr., is facing political fallout after a $175,000 settlement paid to a former employee who accused him of sexual harassment. The woman, Francine Carbone, held the position of assistant to the town’s director of housing and urban renewal....