Sexual Harassment Law Blog

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....

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...

[Post updated May 2020] A big shakeup at the Department of Veterans Affairs has many wondering what is going on. Just five months after being named to his post, Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary James Byrne, 55, has left the agency. His boss, Secretary Robert Wilkie, is under investigation by the...

Three dispatchers for the Lake County Colorado Sheriff’s Office will share an $875,000 settlement in a lawsuit in which they alleged they were sexually harassed by the former sheriff, Rodney Fenske, and undersheriff, Fernando Mendoza. Their lawsuit not only brought down their harassers but...

Guy Roberts, a former assistant defense secretary for nuclear programs, resigned from his position in April. Still, it wasn’t really clear his reason for his leaving until the Pentagon report released in December.
In February, a woman on his staff filed a sexual harassment complaint...

The MeToo movement revealed the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. Nearly 30 years ago, lawyer and academic Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment when both worked at the EEOC.
Thomas was confirmed by the Senate and still...

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....