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“Credibility is for the Jury”: How Knox v. CRC Management Co.,...
Executive Summary In Knox v. CRC Management Co., LLC, 2025 WL 1057862 (2d Cir. 2025), the Second Circuit delivered a sweeping reversal of a district court’s grant of summary judgment in an employment discrimination case brought by a low-wage...
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“In Loco Predatoris: When Schools Fail to See Female Educators as...
Introduction: The Hidden Civil Rights Crisis For more than 14 years, I have raised a civil rights issue that most institutions—and much of the public—have refused to confront fully: the sexual abuse of students by female educators. As a...
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False Neutrality: How Coworker ‘Staying Out of It’ Becomes Institutional Retaliation
I. Introduction Neutrality in the face of harassment is often framed as professionalism. Colleagues claim they “don’t want to get involved.” Supervisors maintain they’re “staying impartial.” But in practice, silence is rarely...
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Trauma Contagion at Work: Why Witnesses to Harassment Often Turn on...
Introduction In the aftermath of workplace harassment, one of the most painful betrayals often doesn’t come from the harasser or management. It comes from peers—colleagues who witnessed the abuse, knew it was wrong, and either stood silently...
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Performance as Punishment: How Employers Retaliate Under the Radar Through Reviews,...
Introduction: When Accountability Becomes a Liability Retaliation in the workplace is rarely loud. It does not always announce itself with termination letters or overt threats. It often takes the form of subtle shifts: a sudden drop in performance...
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Toxic Resilience: How Survivors Normalize Abuse to Survive—and How Employers Weaponize...
Introduction: When Survival Is Used Against You Survivors of workplace sexual harassment often face a cruel paradox: the very behaviors they adopt to survive abuse—composure, professionalism, even gratitude—are later used to discredit them....
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