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How HR and Judges Made It Almost Impossible for Victims of Sexual Harassment to Win in Court

Harvard Business Review

decided by a federal trial court in New York in 2000 and affirmed by a federal appeals court in 2001. In many ways, the current state of court decisions begins in a familiar place: human resources departments. Programs, policies, and training alone do not stop sexual harassment and abuse. Consider the case of Leopold v.