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  • Domestic Violence or Sexual Assault at Work
    This guide explains the legal remedies you may have against your employer if you have been injured at work by an abuser or perpetrator of an assault or if you have been assaulted at work.
  • Discriminación En Empleo Contra Las Víctimas De La Violencia
    ¿Fue usted despedida, suspendida, forzada a resignar, o degradada en su trabajo después que su empleador se enteró que usted está en una relación abusiva o que fue una víctima de la agresión sexual o el acoso? ¿Está usted siendo hostigada sexualmente por otro empleado en su trabajo? ¿Ha sido usted agredida sexualmente en el trabajo?
  • Disabled Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence
    A survivor of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking may have physical and emotional disabilities caused by the abuse. Employers cannot discriminate against you if you have certain disabilities. This guide provides basic information about your right to protection against discrimination. It also tells you about your right to ask for changes in your workload, hours or space that are necessary because of your disability.
  • Small Business Initiative on Domestic Violence
    This brochure for small business employers provides statistics on domestic violence victims and costs, how domestic violence affects and unions, and guidance on creating an environment where what was traditionally seen as a “private” problem can be openly and effectively addressed.
  • United States v. Morrison
    Determined the Constitutionality of the Violence Against Women Act's civil rights remedy.
  • Valdez v. Truss Components, Inc.
    Determined the right to sue under Title VII for wrongful discharge when a woman is dismissed from employment because her batterer works in the same establishment.
  • American Life League v. Reno
    Determined the Constitutionality of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
  • "There's No Accounting For Judges" by Lynn Hecht Schafran
    Judges impose minimal sentences on abusers, trivializing violence against women. This article recounts cases, the intense response of the communities in which these sentences were imposed, and the ways in which judicial selection, election, education, evaluation and discipline can be used to prevent recurrence of this type of gender bias. 
  • Maiming the Soul: Judges, Sentencing, and the Myth of the Nonviolent Rapist
  • Importance of Voir Dire in Rape Trials
  • Ziegler v. Ziegler
    Addressed the Constitutionality of the Violence Against Women Act civil rights remedy.
  • Yasmeen Daniel v. Armlist, LLC, et al.
    Wisconsin's multiple laws to prohibit domestic abusers’ access to firearms are not preempted by the federal Communications Decency Act.

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