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New Rules for Harassment Claims in New York City
Jonathan L. Sulds, a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, reviews two recent decisions that alter the landscape for New York City workplace harassment law: in one, an Appellate Division panel held that the long-standing federal standard for determining whether there exists actionable harassment because of a hostile work environment, namely that incidents are "severe and pervasive," does not apply to claims brought under the City Human Rights Law, in the second, a federal district court ruled that New York City employers accused of sexual harassment are not entitled to an affirmative defense under which there is no employer liability where the the plaintiff unreasonably fails to utilize an existing internal complaint investigation and resolution process.View more book results for the query "*"
Rambus Still Haunted By 'Shred Days'
Seven months after a Virginia federal judge found chipmaker Rambus had engaged in litigation misconduct in a patent dispute with a rival, the Silicon Valley firm must now defend itself against the same allegations on the West Coast. The Virginia judge's ruling that Rambus had acted against "the interests of justice" when it asked employees companywide to shred records is reverberating through a trial set to begin today, in which Hynix Semiconductor is bringing its own patent complaint against Rambus.