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To: Lane3 who wrote (5271)	11/14/2005 3:47:01 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 543067

The interesting thing about the Justice Dept lawyers is that the civil rights laws exist for a reason mandated by Congress, they weren't just invented by plaintiff lawyers. If you have a civil rights complaint in the work force, not just against a federal agency, you have to go through the administrative process. And the agency you complain to, be it EEOC or whomever, has first dibs on prosecution if it's a meritorious case. I've handled a fair amount of civil rights cases, mostly sexual harassment cases, mostly pretty egregious. Which, parenthetically, is why I don't agree that feminism has triumphed. Now that I know why the Justice Department won't pick up the cases even if the EEOC wants to go forward, that makes me believe even less that we're post-feminism here. I had one case where the bosses son regularly, and I mean frequently, would drop his trousers and waggle his penis at his employees. EEOC wanted to go with it but it never went anywhere. Now I know why. BTW, most of the women at this place of employment would just grin and bear it, since the guy's dad knew what was going on and wouldn't do anything about it, said it was no big deal. Hard for me to believe that in 2003-2004 this is the way things still work. They thought my client was a gold-digger for suing.