Seventeen female residents of Wilkes County have settled allegations that an area realtor sexually harassed them for $600,000. The case was brought by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina against ...

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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 on ...

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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 ...

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A male worker who alleges that his former supervisor and a coworker subjected him to unwelcome sexual comments won’t be able to bring a federal suit alleging violations of the Civil Rights Act. U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan dismissed the ...

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Ernst & Young was slapped Monday with a second sexual harassment complaint in less than year describing a culture of discrimination and lewd behavior toward women at the accounting company. Karen Ward, a former partner with EY, said her supervisor ...

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Earlier this year, Judge Alex Kozinski, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, retired after he was accused of making inappropriate comments toward law clerks under his tutelage. And in June the U.S. Senate held hearings to determine how wide-reaching the problem of sexual harassment is in the federal judiciary.

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Speaking of federal judges serving lifetime appointments, a federal judge in Nebraska has raised controversy after going on a Twitter offensive against a group of law clerks who are working to combat sexual harassment in the federal judiciary. Richard Kopf, ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina state lawmakers are getting opportunities to learn more about what constitutes workplace harassment so as to prevent it within the legislative branch. The General Assembly’s chief administrator announced March 14 training will be offered to all 170 ...

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Diede v. UNC Healthcare (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-006-18, 7 pp.) (W. Earl Britt, S.J.) 5:16-cv-06788; E.D.N.C. Holding: Defendant UNC Healthcare is an instrumentality of the state and consequently is protected from liability by the Eleventh Amendment. Nothing in the complaint ...

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