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The Forgotten Interest Group: Reforming Title Vii To Address The Concerns Of Workers While Eliminating Sexual Harassment, Hannah K. Vorwerk

Vanderbilt Law Review

Since 1980, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") guidelines have made employers liable for harassment perpetrated by their agents and supervisory employees, and, in some cases, for harassment occurring between co-workers in their employ. In 1991, Congress amended Title VII (the "Act") to provide compensatory and punitive damages for victims of sexual harassment. The increased damages heightened the stakes in lawsuits concerning employer liability for sexual harassment, and thus provided increased incentives for employers to implement sexual harassment policies and to discipline harassers.

The extant EEOC guidelines already had defined sexual harassment broadly to include "verbal or physical conduct of a …

Hooters: Should There Be An Assumption Of Risk Defense To Some Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claims?, Kelly C. Timmons

Vanderbilt Law Review

In 1993 several former waitresses at the restaurant "Hooters" sued the chain for sexual harassment. The lawsuits alleged that Hooters established a work environment in which its customers felt free to make sexual comments and advances to its waitresses.' Examples of the offensive nature of the work environment included the name of the restaurant ("Hooters," a slang term for women's breasts) and the sexually provocative uniforms the waitresses were required to wear. Responses to the lawsuits varied widely. Some individuals took the view that Hooters should be found liable for the sexual harassment of its waitresses by its customers, while …

Third-Party Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: An Examination Of Client Control, David S. Warner

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

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Employer Liability For Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Based On A Single Occurrence, Francis Achampong

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

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Verbal Sexual Harassment As Equality-Depriving Conduct, Keith R. Fentonmiller

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Part I of this Note argues that commentators like Browne and some courts have mischaracterized the harm of verbal sexual harassment as mere "offense." Rather, the true harm of a sexually hostile environment created by words and expressive conduct extends beyond offense, emotional distress, and economic displacement; at bottom, the harm is equality-deprivation.

Part II explains how a sexually hostile environment is equality-depriving by arguing that words which create a sexually hostile environment must be understood in historical and social context. Words can be used not only to communicate ideas but also to perform acts of coercion and sexual abuse. …

Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Discharge, And Employer Liability: The Employer's Dilemma, Sarah Needleman Kline

American University Law Review

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Workers' Compensation And Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: A Remedy For Employees, Or A Shield For Employers?, Ruth C. Vance

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

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Workers' Compensation And Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: A Remedy For Employees, Or A Shield For Employers?, Ruth C. Vance

Law Faculty Publications

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A Unified Approach To Causation In Disparate Treatment Cases: Using Sexual Harassment By Supervisors As The Causal Nexus For The Discriminatory Motivating Factor In Mixed Motive Cases, Margaret E. Johnson

All Faculty Scholarship

This Comment examines a unified approach for disparate treatment mixed motives claims paired with sexual harassment claims under Title VII. The Author argues that because of the policy for nondiscriminatory and desegregated work environments embodied in Title VII, and because of the documented harm resulting from sexual harassment, courts should allow the burden of proof to shift to the defendant if the plaintiff demonstrates that her supervisor sexually harassed her, or condoned the harassment, and that the harassing supervisor made an employment decision that was adverse to her.

What Can You Say, Where Can You Say It, And To Whom?: A Guide To Understanding And Preventing Unlawful Sexual Harassment, David Allen Larson

Faculty Scholarship

After an increase in visibility for sexual harassment cases in 1991, employers have had to treat allegations of sexual misconduct more seriously now that juries have the authority to award both compensatory and punitive damages. Many employers and employees remain confused, however, as to what conduct is considered unlawful sexual harassment. This article explains how courts have analyzed allegations of unlawful sexual harassment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discussing what a court must find before it will impose liability. In response to the very real and immediate demand for a straightforward discussion of the …

The Thomas Hearings: Watching Ourselves, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

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The Reasonable Woman And The Ordinary Man, Carol Sanger

Faculty Scholarship

Nineteen ninety-one was a seismic year for sexual harassment. The first localized shift occurred in January, when the Ninth Circuit established that the standard by which sexual harassment in the workplace would be judged was no longer the reasonable man or even the reasonable person but rather the reasonable woman. In October a larger audience felt a much stronger jolt when Anita Hill spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Hill testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her while she worked for him at the Department of Education and at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her testimony …

Labor Law—Employment Discrimination—Employer May Be Held Liable For Hostile Work Environment, Frances Scroggins

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Sexual Harassment And The Employer-Employee Relationship, Alayne B. Adams

West Virginia Law Review

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