Handing down the largest sexual harassment award to a single plaintiff in United States history, a California jury concluded that Ani Chopourian, a physician assistant, was subjected to sexual harassment, retaliation and a sexually hostile work environment during her two-year employment with Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, California.  The jury’s $168 million verdict last week [...]

Lanisha Cole, a former “The Price is Right” model, filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit early this month against the show’s producers Michael Richards and Adam Sandler, and the show’s production company Fremantle Media North America.  According to the complaint, Richards stopped talking to Cole some time in 2006, choosing instead to communicate with [...]

On August 18, 2011 the Associated Press reported that New York-based ITT Corporation has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by two firefighters at the Kauai’s Pacific Missile Range Facility. Throughout the case, ITT maintained the lawsuit wasn’t credible but settled the suit this month for $215,000. Ms. Melissa Pacheco was the female firefighter who [...]

This week, United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore saw its summary judgment for an employer reversed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.  In 2006, Katrina Okoli filed suit against the City of Baltimore for quid pro quo sexual harassment, hostile work environment and retaliation.  Two years prior, she had been [...]

The story opens with a U.S. senator’s sexual harassment of a campaign staffer and ends with an ethics probe, a sensational resignation and divorce proceedings.  In Ms. magazine’s summer 2011 issue, Executive Editor Katherine Spillar spotlights disturbing details sandwiched between the beginning of Senator John Ensign’s scandalous affair with his married campaign treasurer and the [...]

TSW Management, doing business as Burger King in Warren and Royal Oak, Michigan, is facing a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit involving victims who are minors.  Filed last week in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, the pithy complaint claims that the franchise’s manager has sexually propositioned several female [...]

On July 5, the EEOC named Hurricane Grill and Wings restaurant of Royal Palm Beach, FL in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit on  grounds that management failed to stop a customer from harassing female service staff.  The complaint indicates that as early as April 2009, the establishment’s owner and a vice president were aware [...]