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Article: DEFINING SEX HARASSMENT.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1998
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On the surface, it seemed self-evident: If there are laws against sexual harassment in the workplace, anyone who is harassed should be protected, even in instances involving those of the same sex.
In fact, such logic was anything but self-evident to a lower federal court when it threw out a same-sex harassment suit filed by an offshore oil worker who claimed his fellow male workers and supervisors had harassed and attacked him. The lower court turned away the suit on the grounds that the sex-harassment statute known as Title VII did not apply to same-gender cases.
Now, in a refreshing, if overdue, clarification, the U.S. Supreme Court has set the record ...