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Sossman ruled that the University did not violate Massachusetts General Law Chapter 151b by not launching an investigation of Battenfield's complaint of sexual harassment. She also found no negligent infliction of emotional distress on Ostrowski's part...
...jury furthermore determined that Ostrowski neither" intend[ed] to inflict emotional distress on" Battenfield nor "kn[e]w or should have known that emotional distress was the likely result of his conduct...
...calm bravery. At one point he paused, knee-high in the stream of his eloquence, to ask if he might take a sip of liquid morphine to ease his pain. Bragg wondered if they should stop; Potter replied, "It's better to go on." As another poet of profound distress, Samuel Beckett, wrote...
...tactic. In April, 64 members of the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union stormed the North Carolina golf course where the Greensboro Open, an event on the Professional Golfers' Association tour, was in progress. They were arrested, but their protest was splashed all over TV and local papers -- to the distress of their employer, K Mart, which spent $2 million to sponsor the event. "Our bargaining leverage improved dramatically," says Bruce Raynor, ACTWU executive vice president...
...harassment because she was an Arkansas state employee in 1991. After refusing Clinton's advances, she says, she was treated badly at work, transferred and denied promotions. Because the federal statute of limitations bars harassment suits after six months, Jones is suing instead for infliction of "emotional distress," as well as deprivation of civil rights and defamation...