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The United States Supreme Court and various U.S. state courts have decided several cases regarding pornography, sexual activity, and reproductive rights. The trend has been one of courts striking down states' attempts to regulate sex. The following is a list of noteworthy sex-related court cases in order by date.
The term sexual harassment was popularized following a consciousness-raising session led by Lin Farley as part of a Cornell University program on women in the workplace, [3] and the term entered popular use in 1975. [4] [5] A number of the original sexual harassment cases were pursued on behalf of black women and girls. [6]
In response to the class action case, a Rio Tinto spokesperson said the company doesn’t tolerate any form of sexual harassment or sex-based harassment and it is “absolutely committed to ...
The settlement appears to be the first in a series of sexual harassment cases filed against Tesla since 2021. Elon Musk’s Tesla, which has denied wrongdoing in those cases, and lawyers for ...
Roy S. Moore of Alabama, a Republican candidate for the Senate, was accused by nine women of sexual contact and assault when the women were teenage girls in the 1980s. Moore denied the allegations but lost the election. [190] [191] [192] (2017) Tony Tooke, Chief of the US Forest Service, resigned in 2018 after sexual harassment and retaliation ...
Blake Lively could be headed to trial over the claims made in her sexual harassment complaint against Justin Baldoni, a legal expert tells PEOPLE.. According to Gregory Doll, who is a partner at ...
Sexual harassment first became codified in U.S. law as the result of a series of sexual harassment cases in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of the early women pursuing these cases were African American, often former civil rights activists who applied principles of civil rights to sex discrimination. [15] Williams v.
The U.S. Federal Reserve Board received 11 complaints against individuals alleging sexual harassment between 2020 and 2023 and disciplined nine staff members as a result, firing four of them ...