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Noya Rimalt, ?Stereotyping Women, Individualizing Harassment: The Dignitary Paradigm of Sexual Harassment Law between the Limits of Law and the Limits of Feminism?
The abstract: This article provides a thorough analysis of contemporary sexual harassment case law in Israel and presents the first systematic study of all reported court opinions on sexual harassment that have been issued following the enactment of The Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law in 1998, 222 opinions in all...

Not-Harassment
As I explained in an earlier post, the crime of harassment essentially consists of using telephonic or electronic communications to ?harass, alarm or annoy? another person...

Not-Harassment (2)
Not long ago, I did a post (?Not-Harassment?) on a New York case in which the court threw out harassment charges against an 18-year-old boy who used MySpace to declare his love for a 14-year-old girl...

Disability Harassment
"Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial environment of...

E-harassment law too vague even for CCA
At Not Guilty, criminal defense lawyer Doug Weathers informs us that the "rarest of events has occurred here in Texas": "A criminal statute has been declared unconstitutional on its face by the Court of [Criminal] Appeals...

Net Harassment - Creative Remedies
Several recent cases and events have focused significant attention on the use of the Internet for defamatory and harassing activities...

Can a creditor/collection agency call other employees at your place of work AND call your adult children who live in another state?
A creditor can call you at home, several times a day if you aren't answerin...

Personal information/online harassment?
Quit talking with people on message boards that support these activities. The se...

I have an ex boyfriend who refuses to give up contacting me. He still sends email, writes, and calls my cell phone, even though I have asked him to stop. Is there some point at which I can have him prosecuted for harassm
Harassment cases can be notoriously difficult to prosecute, especially if your e...

Is it harassment to tell an employee, "Shut up." When the employee is not being disruptive.
Harrassment cases are usually built on ongoing behaviour - a single incident lik...

My situation is somewhat difficult to describe, but about two months ago planes began arriving at an airport near my house and an organized stalking effort began. As I'm driving to and from home, cars will begin encircli
I would like this person 'anonymous' to get in touch with me. Question...