Harassment ruling astonishes lawyers

Washington Times ^ | Sunday, April 21, 2002 | By Frank J. Murray

[JohnHuang2]

A federal appeals court astounded lawyers last week with a ruling advising a company it has a "moral obligation" to financially aid employee Linda Gray even though the company defeated her sexual-harassment claims in court.

"I have never seen a gratuitous comment like this," said Dan Fuller, general counsel for the Louisville-based Genlyte Group, which includes among its 5,500 employees Miss Gray's Lightolier division in Fall River, Mass.

[JohnHuang2]

Sunday, April 21, 2002

Quote of the Day by Ranger 4/20/02

[GeronL]

Before long we'll have a judge say that a company must keep paying employee's who quit until they find a new job. Or that parents must support a child who is 40 and hasn't found a satisfying job....

[JohnHuang2]

shhhhhhhhhh...don't given 'em any ideas...

[Jeff Chandler]

Before long we'll have a judge say that a company must keep paying employee's who quit until they find a new job

If that ever becomes law I'll quit!

[GeronL]

I think it'll happen in Italy first

[Jeff Chandler]

I think it'll happen in Italy first

Sì signore, probabilmente.

[ArneFufkin]

I don't think Miss Gray earned any "Employee of the Month" awards during one of her rare actively employed stints. She sounds like a royal pain.

[Quila]

Damn Clinton-appointed liberal courts, who do they think they are? Oh, wait, a Bush appointee wrote that opinion, maybe it doesn't always have something to do with who appointed them.

to his client, who he said visits a therapist and is too emotionally disabled to work.

Honestly, somebody please tell me, help me understand, tell me if I'm wrong. How pathetically weak minded do you have to be to be permanently emotionally disabled, unable to work, because some idiot kept making passes at you. How could this woman have possibly functioned in society being this incredibly weak? My wife sees this and says "I would have just kicked him in the nuts and it would have been over with." She can't understand either.

[Quila]

Miss Gray said that as far back as 1981 Mr. Hermenegildo, who remains a Genlyte employee,

I don't know why they haven't fired the idiot who got them into this mess in the first place.

I have low tolerance for sexual harrassment, either actual from the offender (he's fired) or perceived where there is none (she's fired).