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A Case Review: Pennsylvania State Police Vs. Suders
Summary: Reviews the U.S. Supreme Court Case Pennsylvania State Police vs. Suders. Provides details of the case. Examines the majority opinion written by Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Nancy Drew Suders was hired March 1998 by the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) as a police communications operator for the McConnellsburg barracks, where her three male supervisors subjected her to a "continuous barrage of sexual harassment." Suders said one of the supervisors Sergeant Eric D. Easton, talked to her repeatedly about sex with animals. The second, Corporal Eric B. Prendergast sat on her desk and made gestures simulating oral sex. The third, Patrol Corporal William D. Baker made obscene gestures as many as five or ten times a night. In June 1998, Suders spoke to PSP's Equal Employment Opportunities Officer, Virginia Smith-Elliot, and told her that she "might need some help." Two months later Suders contacted Smith-Elliot again and this time told her that she was being harassed and was afraid. Smith-Elliot told Suders to file a complaint, but she never told her how to obtain the necessary forms or...
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