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Thursday, March 5, 1998
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Same-sex harassment case revived by court
WASHINGTON — On-the-job torment can be sexual harassment even when the offender and victim are the same sex, the Supreme Court said yesterday in a decision that could touch virtually every American workplace.
The Associated Press
The court said same-sex harassment could violate a federal anti-discrimination law. It voted unanimously to revive a Louisiana lawsuit closely watched by the nation's employers and gay-rights groups.
Yesterday's decision provided important new guidelines for resolving sex-harassment claims, but plenty of questions remain about the legality of certain conduct in specific employment settings.
In that lawsuit, a man alleged he was sexually harassed by three other men while working on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig.
"Common sense and an appropriate sensitivity to social context will enable courts and juries to distinguish between what is legal and illegal." Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court.
The ruling allows victims of homosexual
All circumstances must be considered, Scalia said and gave the example of a football coach smacking the fanny of a player who was heading onto the field. Nothing illegal there, Scalia said, but that was not necessarily the case when the coach does the same thing to his secretary, male or female.
harassment to get into federal court.
In the Louisiana case, a federal appeals court ruled that the federal law never applied to same-sex harassment.
Joseph Oncale's sexual-hassarment claim stemmed from four months of work in 1991 as a roustabout assigned to a Gulf of Mexico oil rig with Sundowner Offshore Services.
Oncale's lawsuit against Sundowner and three men said he was sexually assaulted battered, touched and threatened with rap by two supervisors and a co-worker.
All three men named as defendants portrayed their conduct as hazing or lockerroom horseplay.
Senate drives up standard
The Supreme Court's decision allows Oncale to take his lawsuit to a jury but does not ensure his victory.
Drivers' blood-alcohol limit would be linked to funding
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate endorsed tough national standards for determining drunken driving yesterday, overcoming opposition from lawmakers who complained that Washington was meddling with state decisions.
"I hope that the happy hour is over for drunk drivers," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., one of the chief sponsors of the measure. He predicted that the tough standard could save more than 500 lives a year.
Anti-drunken driving groups estimate that in 1996, more than 17,000 of the 40,000 deaths on the nation's highways resulted from alcohol-related accidents.
By a 62-32 margin, the Senate urged states to set a .08 percent blood-alcohol content as
the threshold for drunken driving. Fifteen states have that standard, while 35 states use a more lenient.10 percent.
Each state that does not accept the tougher standard would lose 5 percent of its federal highway money in fiscal 2002, and 10 percent after that.
The national standard generally was opposed by the alcohol and restaurant industries, which contended that.08 percent was too low. In the Senate, the main opposition was from lawmakers who argued that states should have the right to set the standard.
The drunken-driving measure was presented as an amendment to a $173 billion, six-year highway funding bill.
Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., said she would introduce a similar amendment to the transportation funding bill.
The .08 level represents the blood-alcohol content when a 170-pound man has four drinks in an hour, or a 137-pound woman has three.
'79 'seduction is rape in '98 soap opera says
NEW YORK - Nearly 20 years ago, Luke and Laura of General Hospital became daytime television's most popular couple after what the show romanticized as Luke's "seduction" of Laura.
the writers glossed over how it really happened: Luke raped Laura on the floor of a closed disco late one night.
Now General Hospital is revisiting that episode from its past, in part to illustrate how attitudes toward date rape have changed since 1979 and to make clear that the story would not be handled the same way today.
"My first reaction was that it was a big can of worms that could eat us alive. I was terrified," said Anthony Geary, the actor who plays Luke Spencer.
Geary; Soap star worried about examining 1979 rape
In the original story line. Luke was tormented by his lust for Laura and forced himself upon her.
Much to the show's surprise, the two characters
Which to be hit with viewers.
So the writers had them run off together, fall in love and get married. General Hospital subsequently referred to the disco incident as a seduction, angering many women.
Luke and Laura still are together and have a 16-year-old son, Lucky.
In tomorrow's episode,
Lucky is told that his father
once raped his mother.
Francis; Character "Laura" is still married to her rapist
Complicating matters further, Lucky learns about this from his arch-enemy.
the illicit offspring of his mother and a man with whom she had an affair.
"For us, it was a great opportunity," said Wendy Riche, executive producer. "We didn't approach it as 'let's make amends.' We didn't feel guilty or felt like we had to."
But Riche acknowledged that the same story line — a woman falling in love with her rapist — would not pass muster with viewers today.
The Associated Press
Memo suggests continued hazing at The Citadel
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A Justice Department memo that said hazing was a "way of life" at The Citadel does not reflect the current atmosphere at the state military school, said the president who took over in August.
The Aug. 13 memo said hazing, including physical abuse, still existed to a disturbing degree at The Citadel.
The memo outlined the investigation into the 1996 hazing of two female cadets and described how
other cadets carved letters into a male cadet's chest, punched staples into a cadet's chest and cut a cadet's face with a sword.
"Mistreatening people because of legitimate injury or illness... unfortunately seems to be the way of life at The Citadel," said the memo obtained by North Carolina's Charlotte Observer under the Freedom of Information Act.
"I can't say that applies today," said President John Grinalds, who cracked down on hazing after he took office. "Hazing is not commonplace."
Grinalds' changes included
putting more adults in the barracks, rewriting college rules and stressing a philosophy that leading people does not mean abusing them.
The Justice Department said in January there was not enough evidence to prove that former cadets Jeanie Mentavos and Kim Messer were harassed and had their clothes set afire solely because they were women.
The two women have sued the school or the cadets allegedly involved.
The school disciplined 14 male cadets for the incidents.
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