Sexual Harassment Called Persistent in Judiciary Workplaces (1)

Current and former employees of the federal judiciary alleged in an amicus brief that sexual and other harassment persists and that the court system continues to fail to protect workers from office misconduct.

One appellate clerk in the amicus filed Thursday in a sex harassment suit alleged that her male co-clerks “liked to joke about having sex with or raping” her. Another amicus described how a male clerk, with whom she shared an office, “made inappropriate remarks about her body, including trying to guess her bra size.”

A third law clerk recounted how her judge’s judicial assistant critiqued her clothes, ...