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Beware the high price of foul language: Expensive trials before unsympathetic judges

02/09/2010

It doesn’t happen often, but now the 11th Circuit has issued a rare unanimous en banc opinion. The judges, without a single dissent, ruled that a woman who quit her job because she couldn’t stand alleged daily sexual harassment can take her case to trial. The decision includes some important guidelines for what will be considered sexual harassment and what is simply crude and generally offensive behavior.

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