What's It Worth?
July, 1998
Last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reviewed 15,500 sexual harassment complaints. Only 3253 were deemed to have merit. In other words, only one in five lawyers knows sexual harassment when he or she sees it. The cases that reach a judge or jury do little to clarify the confusion. Why is a rape worth $165,000 and a crude remark millions? If money talks, what is it saying in these cases?$1Who: Robinson vs. Jacksonville Shipyards, FloridaWhy: When she went to work at a shipyard,...
