The 4th U.S. Court of Appeals has revived a worker’s claim of same-sex sexual harassment, joining five sister circuits in holding that such plaintiffs aren’t limited to the three distinct evidentiary options outlined in a U.S. Supreme Court decision from ...

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A Lynchburg federal judge will allow a  lawsuit against Washington & Lee University to go to a jury because a discipline committee may have applied different credibility standards to an accuser and the accused in a sexual misconduct case. U.S. ...

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A federal judge has approved a $1.1 million settlement for a student, now in his teens, who claimed he was repeatedly abused by the janitor at his elementary school in Russell County. After the suit survived two pretrial rulings, the ...

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The Appalachian School of Law and three administrators have been sued by a former professor who claims the Southwest Virginia school failed to follow proper procedures when the instructor complained about harassment and threats from a student. The professor claims ...

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