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To: JohnM who wrote (102476)	1/30/2009 11:40:48 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) of 541787

<<<The justices unanimously sided with a woman who was fired after answering questions in her company’s investigation of a sexual harassment claim. >>> I was wrong but Thomas, Scalia, and Alito are usually on the other side of sexual harassment cases. <<<But during oral arguments in October, Justice Antonin Scalia worried a broad reading of Title VII might hurt companies trying to remove unproductive or harassing workers. "Any employee who is smart enough to come in and testify against sexual harassment has a guaranteed job," he said. At the same time, "Maybe an employer would rather say - I'd rather roll the dice and not conduct an investigation and [thereby] insulate all my hostile employees from employment actions." Scalia eventually sided with the majority favoring Crawford>>>

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