Sexual Harassment Lawyer Blawg

Professor Chandler had been the subject of sexual harassment, racial harassment and retaliation complaints at Edinboro University since the mid-1990s. Although the university received these complaints it did not stop Professor Chandler from sexually harassing students. Some students who made complaints faced waits of years for a response and then were told that unless they testified in a formal hearing there was nothing the university could do. By then they had graduated and just wanted to forget their nightmare, so nothing changed,

Cameron Aulner is no ordinary young man.

Cameron Aulner was one of the students whom Chandler had sexually harassed. Like other victims, the University ignored his complaints. Cameron fought back. As Joe Mandak reported for the AP, he obtained civil rights counsel from the Law Offices of Joshua Friedman which filed a lawsuit against Edinboro University and Professor Chandler.

Not all hostile work and school environments are illegal. The abusive conduct must be motivated by the victim's sex, race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or membership in someother protected category. Examples of hostile work environments which are illegal are:

• The use of racial, religious, or national origin slurs. Such conduct makes clear that the harassment is motivated by racial, religious or national origin prejudice. The use of harassing symbols may make motive equally clear, such as showing an African-American the confederate flag.
• Unwanted offensive sexual speech or conduct. Whether directed at the same or opposite sex this is actionable.


• Disparaging a person because of his or her gender. For example, habitually referring to women but not men in derrogatory terms such as bitches.


• Disparaging a person because of his or her failure to conform to gender stereotypes. For example, disparaging men who are perceived as effeminate as sissies.