Harassment cases create school daze; judges, jury fail to clarify murky law in Title IX sexual harassment cases

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Recent decisions in WI, NY, and CA on sexual harassment claims by students against public schools give would-be plaintiffs little guidance and have administrators resigned to running roughshod over wrongly accused students. A CA federal court ruled in July 1996 that school officials are liable under a constructive notice, or 'should-have-known,' standard, but a NY federal court ruled in Nov 1996 that actual notice is required. In WI, a gay student won a suit brought under Title IX charging officials with not protecting him.

Sexual Harassment, School administrators

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Impeachment not Clinton's only legal threat

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Pres Bill Clinton may face legal difficulties aplenty once he leaves office even if he survives his impeachment crisis. Special prosecutor Kenneth Starr could indict him for perjury and obstruction of justice, perhaps even before Clinton's term in office ends; federal district Judge Susan Webber Wright could charge him with criminal contempt for allegedly lying when deposed for the Paula Jones lawsuit. Discipline by the Arkansas bar is also possible and a divorce suit by Hilary Clinton could ruin her husband financially.

Investigations, Clinton, Bill, Libel and slander

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Accused sexual harassers strike back with suits; men are alleging reverse discrimination, claiming management failed to punish women for similar actions

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Men discharged or punished for violating sexual harassment policies have added reverse-discrimination lawsuits to a repertoire of legal defenses that includes defamation and breach-of-contract suits. Courts have not yet found in favor of the men in any such cases, which generally are brought when a male supervisor had engaged in consensual conduct with a subordinate or both had acted similarly. Observers note that as the number of cases rises, so does the number of false claims.

Reverse discrimination

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