Female jail guards at the Summit County Jail in Ohio will receive $400,000 from county officials, the U.S. Department of Justice reported. The Ohio women filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the county last year, claiming that they had been “effectively demoted” because they were barred from any jobs where they had to strip-search male [...]
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Settlement Reached in Sexting Lawsuit
Ken Kratz, former Calumet County, WI district attorney, has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Stephanie Van Groll for an undisclosed sum of money. Van Groll was on the receiving end of undesired racy text messages from Mr. Kratz, the district attorney prosecuting her ex-boyfriend for domestic abuse. These text messages included propositions, come-ons [...]
Harvard Doctor Wins $7 Million in Gender Discrimination Case
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Boston hospital affiliated with the prestigious Harvard Medical School, has agreed to put an end to a gender discrimination lawsuit. Although the hospital is denying wrongdoing in the protracted case of Warfield v. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., 454 Mass. 390 (2009), the plaintiff will also be honored [...]
La Joya School Board to Pay $150,000 to Settle Sexual Harassment Complaint
As with other many other school districts in the United States, the La Joya Independent School District in Texas must occasionally deal with civil litigation. In fact, a recent announcement from the district’s legal department stated that a sexual harassment complaint by a former employee had been settled for $150,000. In 2011, assistant superintendent Adriana [...]
