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Re: Bernstein hearing: The Press Release

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Mon Sep 23 20:46:51 1996

Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:27:29 -0500
From: Mike McNally <m5@vail.tivoli.com>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com

Lucky Green wrote:
>
> Yes, you can be sued for sexual harrasment for trying to pick up a
> stranger in a bar, should that stranger still feel bothered by your
> advances while at work the next day.
> 
> The courts have ruled,

To paraphrase the probably-great Charles Haynes, "my bullshit meter 
is jiggling up near the red line".  Is there really a case of a person
being convicted of workplace sexual harassment against somebody they
didn't work with?



[ Yes, I realize that civil law makes very little sense sometimes. ]

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