A day doesn’t go by that we don’t hear about a man in the public eye being found to have had sex with female subordinates at work. Today’s offender is 46 year-old Steve Phillips, ESPN baseball analyst (love that term, instead of “on-air baseball commentator who was accused of sexually harassing a female employee when [...]
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First David Letterman, Now Steve Phillips – Is Sex with Female Subordinates Always Sexual Harassment?
October 26th, 2009
The Supreme Court issued a decision today authored by Justice David Souter that is likely his last opinion on the Court. The Court decided Safford Unified School District v. Redding 8-1 that the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when public school officials searched a 13 year old girl by having [...]
The Supreme Court issued several very important opinions this morning, one we have blogged about before – Fitzgerald v. Barnstable – in which the Court was asked to determine whether the remedy provided by the federal statute that prohibits sex discrimination, including sex harassment, in schools (Title IX) precludes enforcement of sex discrimination claims under [...]
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee – a case involving a girl in the kindergarten at Hyannis West Elementary School who claimed that every time she wore a skirt to school, an eight-year-old third grade boy on the school bus would force her to lift her skirt, [...]
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