by Richard Dooling

About the author: Richard Dooling is an employment-discrimination lawyer and novelist.

Just as the O.J. Simpson trial was a public demonstration of the laws of evidence and procedure in criminal cases [Simpson was acquitted on October 2, 1995, of the June 12, 1994, murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman], so Paula Jones and her lawyers have provided the American public with an object lesson in the awesome scope and power of our current sexual-harassment laws. One woman’s unsupported allegations are grounds for hauling even the President of the United States into a deposition where he can be forced to testify under oath about sexual encounters with former lovers, the size and shape of his penis, his shopping habits, and what books he gives as gifts. [Paula Jones...