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• EEOC Guidance on Employer's Vicarious Liability for Workplace Harassment ( August 1999 )
  

  On June 18, 1999, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued Guidance on an employer's vicarious liability .

• Landmark Rulings Regarding Sexual Harassment ( August 1999 )
  

  Two major decisions published by the Supreme Court last week, Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth and Faragher v.

• Punitive Damages ( August 1999 )
  

  State of mind, not egregious conduct, is determinative. In Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n, 119 S. Ct. 2118 (199.

• Sexual Harassment is in the Headlines ( July 1998 )
  

  This article explains a recent Supreme Court ruling that sends the message that the Court believes litigants and lower courts are getting carried away on claims of sexual harassment.

• ELLERTH And FARAGHER: Applying The Supreme Court's "Delphic Pronouncement" On Employers' Vicarious Liability For Sexual Harassment ( July 1999 )
  

  Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions, Burlington Industries, Inc v Ellerth and Faragher v City .

• U.S. Supreme Court Redefines Employer Liability For Sex Harassment By Supervisors: An Invitation To Employers To Launch Full Scale Preventive Efforts And Reexamine Limits Of Supervisory Authority ( July 1998 )
  

  This article addresses recent U.S. Supreme Court holdings which focus on sexual harassment, the holdings will have broad application to anti-discrimination employment law as a whole.

• Employers Liable for Supervisors' Sexual Harassment Even if no Adverse Action Taken ( June 1999 )
  

  While everyone in Washington was focusing on sexual harassment as a political issue, the U.S. Supreme Court was qui.

• Supreme Court Issues New Rules on Sexual Harassment ( June 1999 )
  

  In two decisions issued on Friday, June 26, 1998, the United States Supreme Court has reworked the legal standards .

• Labor & Employment: May 1999 ( May 1999 )
  

  This update reviews Kohler v. Inter-Tel Technologies's recent decision extending the Title VII Sexual Harassment affirmative defense claim to California FEHA claims.

• Court Interprets New Affirmative Defense to Supervisory Sexual Harassment ( March 1999 )
  

  A Virginia federal district court applied the "Faragher-Burlington Industries affirmative defense" established by the Supreme Court recently and found an employer wanting in the second element of the defense.