Northrop Grumman Manager’s Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Advances

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. lost its bid to escape a lawsuit from a former manager who says she faced sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, but the amount of damages the plaintiff can potentially recover will be capped, a federal court in Kansas said.

The manager led a team carrying out war games for the U.S. military. She alleges that her supervisor continually subjected her to unwanted touching, despite being asked multiple times to stop.

This supervisor also allegedly pressured her to come to his hotel room during a business trip, and after she refused gave her administrative assistant duties that ...