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One federal appeals court concluded that conduct that looked like sexual harassment did not meet the legal definition because it was motivated by a bitterly contested union election rather than by the complainant's gender.

Sexual Harassment's Legal Morass Curt Levey 2011

"The nature and number of the complainant's falsehoods leave us unable to credit her version of events beyond a reasonable doubt, whatever the truth may be about the encounter between the complainant and the defendant," Assistant District Attorneys Joan Illuzzi-Orbon and John McConnell wrote.

DA Moves to Abandon Strauss-Kahn Charges Michael Rothfeld 2011

But the court found that INS had misappropriated a "quasi-property right" by "endeavoring to reap where it has not sown, and by disposing of it to newspapers that are competitors of complainant's members . . . appropriating to itself the harvest."

Hot News: Technology Trumps Law L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

Cross-examination is needed to test whether conduct legally qualifies as sexual harassment, like whether it actually interfered with the complainant's studies and made her environment "subjectively hostile."

Fair Means Fair; Evidence Must Count for Something 2011

In court papers filed on Monday, Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance said: "The nature and number of the complainant's falsehoods leave us unable to credit her version of events beyond a reasonable doubt, whatever the truth may be about the encounter between the complainant and the defendant."

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: prosecutors ask judge to dismiss sex charges 2011

But the court found that INS had misappropriated a "quasi-property right" by "endeavoring to reap where it has not sown, and by disposing of it to newspapers that are competitors of complainant's members . . . appropriating to itself the harvest."

Hot News: Technology Trumps Law L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

This matter is central to the complainant's case, of course.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Publishing the name can result in witnesses coming forward with character testimony or other information that casts doubt on the complainant's veracity.

DSK and the District Attorney Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

Today the complainant's team made its case, while Abdelrazik watched by videolink.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

The crimes charged in the indictment required the people to prove that Strauss-Kahn engaged in a sexual encounter using force and without the complainant's consent, Vance said in a statement prepared for the aborted briefing.

Strauss-Kahn could see more twists and turns ahead 2011