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Online Abuse in Sport: What Can We Learn From the Rubiales Trial?

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The event that took over the Women’s Football World Cup Final on 20 August 2023 returned to dominate headlines this month. Luis Rubiales (Rubiales), former president of the Spanish Football Association, was found guilty of...more

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Why Grooming is Not a Title IX-Covered Offense 

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The 2020 Title IX Regulations raise the issue of predatory grooming, but only to state that it may be covered by the definition of Sexual Harassment in § 106.30 of the regulations. Thus, to the Department of Education’s...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Title IX Protections for LGBTQ+ Students: Legal and Mental Health Benefits

Title IX is a powerful federal law that protects students from sex-based discrimination and sexual harassment. If a school does not promptly investigate reports of sex discrimination or harassment, it can lose federal...more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - November 2024 #3

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A commercial affiliate of the Major League Baseball Players Association settled a lawsuit with FanDuel on Friday over the alleged unauthorized use of the names and images of MLB players on its sports betting platform....more

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EEOC Encourages Victims and Witnesses of Harassment at Mariscos El Puerto and La Catrina to Come Forward

Employees Should Contact Federal Agency if They May Have Been Subjected to or Witnessed Harassment - LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages victims of or witnesses to sexual...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

$900 Million Jury Verdict Handed Down by Los Angeles Jury in Workplace Sexual Assault Case

This week a Los Angeles jury awarded a plaintiff nearly $1 billion in damages for workplace sexual assault. The defendant, billionaire Alkiviades David, suffered a staggering loss when a Los Angeles Superior Court jury doled...more

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Employment Law Update: The EEOC’s Final Enforcement Guidance on Workplace Harassment Is Here

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On April 29, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final version of the Enforcement Guidance on Workplace Harassment (the Guidance), to include developments “answering the call” of the #MeToo...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Divided Ninth Circuit Expands Liability for Universities

An en banc panel held that a reasonable jury could find that the University of Arizona had control over the “context” of alleged sexual harassment that occurred in off-campus housing. A university can be held liable under...more

Lathrop GPM

New #MeToo Law Targets NDAs

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Employers should be aware of recent updates regarding two #MeToo-related federal laws: the Speak Out Act and the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

The Speak Out Act and Its Potential Impact on Employers

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Five years after the beginning of the #MeToo movement, sexual assault and harassment in the workplace remain an issue with 81% of women and 43% of men reporting that they have experienced some form of sexual harassment or...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Several States have Enacted Broad Ban on Non-disclosure Agreements

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When drafting employment separation or severance agreements, it is relatively common to include non-disclosure and non-disparagement provisions in the documents. The notion is that in return for payment to the former...more

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Campus Climate Surveys Required by Recent Reauthorization of VAWA

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Colleges and universities that receive federal funding will soon be required to administer campus climate surveys every two years on issues related to dating and domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and...more

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Multiple managers’ failures to report harassment complaints fuel lawsuit

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An employer that had a sexual harassment policy, but that failed to train its employees on the policy AND failed to insist that managers who received complaints forward those complaints to the human resources department, will...more

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Washington Legislature Passes Limits on Use of Nondisclosure, Nondisparagement Clauses in Employment

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The Washington legislature has passed the “Silenced No More Act,” which would limit all Washington employers’ use of nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions in employment agreements....more

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#MeToo2022: I’ll See You In Court, If I Want To – Congress Passes Ban on Mandatory Arbitration of Sexual Harassment and Assault...

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In the wake of the #MeToo movement, several states, such as California, have taken steps to ban mandatory arbitration clauses that cover claims of sexual harassment and assault. However, such prohibitions have decidedly not...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Threats, Harassment, and Contact Tracing: Why Privacy Programs are Expanding to Protect Health Care Workers

Back in March we wrote about Address Confidentiality Programs (ACPs) as the “high stakes compliance risk you probably haven’t heard of.” These state-sponsored programs were traditionally designed to protect victims of crimes...more

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New Jersey Hoteliers Required To Provide Panic Devices to Employees

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Q: I operate a hotel in New Jersey and heard New Jersey law now requires me to provide panic devices to certain hotel employees. What do I need to know? ...more

International Lawyers Network

Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: What US: Missouri Companies Need To Know

2019 Update - The #MeToo movement, which has grown international in scope, is a wide-ranging campaign to shed light on the occurrence of sexual assault and harassment, particularly in the workplace. The movement began in...more

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Washington State Buttons Up Two New Laws Addressing Worker Harassment and Assault in Hospitality and Adult Entertainment...

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Washington Governor Jay Inslee recently signed two bills addressing sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. Both bills require covered hospitality employers and adult entertainment establishments to provide panic...more

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Employers may be liable for harassment by a non-employee

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“Claims of sexual harassment typically involve the behavior of fellow employees. But not always,” said a federal appeals court in Gardner v. CLC of Pascagoula, LLC. The case shows employers must take employee complaints of...more

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Fourth Circuit Imposes Potential Title IX Liability For Allegedly Deficient Institutional Response To Harassment On...

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The Fourth Circuit broke new ground in the Title IX landscape last week, reversing a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit in which students alleged their university violated Title IX by failing to adequately respond to...more

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National Science Foundation Imposes New Anti-Harassment Policy on Awardee Institutions

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On September 21, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a new policy concerning sexual harassment, sexual assault and other forms of harassment. ...more

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Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Forms New “Work-Related Sexual Violence Team”

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In further demonstration of how law enforcement is being faced with new challenges in light of the recent attention paid to work-related sexual violence, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., just announced a new...more

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NAIS and TABS Release Their First Task Force Report on Addressing Educator Sexual Misconduct

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On August 22, 2017, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) released their first joint report on sexual misconduct in independent schools. The report can be found...more

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Employment Law Navigator – Week in Review: January 2017 #5

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Over the weekend, U.S. employers reacted to the new administration’s executive order restricting entry to the United States by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees over...more

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