How Mental Health Testimony Revictimizes Plaintiffs
By Chloe Roberts, Roberts & Associates Law Firm ( December 14, 2016, 11:48 AM EST) -- Courts today are increasingly faced with complex, high-stakes employment litigation as sexual harassment and discrimination have risen to the forefront of our national conscious in the past years. Traditionally, sexual harassment and discrimination cases have been an extremely long and tough victory for many litigators. Actionable claims represent a very small amount of the total claims filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state agencies. A plaintiff's burden to prevail in a sexual harassment or discrimination trial is already a high standard that is difficult to meet. It takes an exceptional amount of evidence to meet the burden of proof that an employer's actions exceed ordinary toxic work conditions into illegal sexual harassment or discrimination....
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