MeToo Hashtag Pressure on Workplaces? Man Claims #MeToo Movement Led to 'Biased' Sexual Harassment Investigation
The suit filed by Tully Rinckey attorney Karen Sanders in U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, said her client was "ambushed" by a biased, sexual harassment investigation by Schoharie Central School District in central New York.
October 28, 2022 at 05:35 PM
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Education
The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
A longtime agriculture educator who traveled New York in a "Mobile Maple Experience" trailer to teach select high school students how to make maple syrup said officials of the Capital Region Board of Cooperative Educational Services told him he was no longer welcome to give presentations, after a student alleged he touched her breasts and rear during a school visit in June 2021.
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