Bloomberg Law
Nov. 28, 2018, 7:56 PM UTC

Judges Shifting View on Victim Silence in #MeToo Cases

Chris Opfer
Chris Opfer
Reporter/Editor

The #MeToo movement has made judges more willing to understand why some sexual harassment victims don’t immediately come forward, Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Charlotte Burrows (D) said Nov. 28.

“It’s a little too early to tell if this is going to be a long-term shift, but some courts have been making decisions that I think would have come out differently a year and a half ago,” Burrows told a group of lawyers at New York University. Court are “starting to also think about what’s reasonable” when it comes to employees who don’t report alleged workplace harassment to their company, she ...

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