In recent days, the campaign turned exceptionally hostile as complaints were raised that Democrats had given absentee ballots to people at an adult care center.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, legal experts say, has not only been consistently unhelpful to President Clinton, but has also been generally hostile to complaints of sexual discrimination at the workplace like the one brought by Ms. Jones.
So, inevitably, the slippery language resulted in endless litigation about off-color jokes told in the company cafeteria or — to cite one recent episode — an exhibition of nudes on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, which Colgate University removed after hostile environment complaints by some of its employees.
We've all heard the stories of sexual-harassment codes gone way overboard: the Miller brewing company executive fired for retelling the "Seinfeld" joke about the woman whose name rhymed with "clitoris"; the teaching assistant whose desktop photo of his scantily clad wife elicited a hostile-environment complaint.
It does not tolerate, and is overtly hostile to, the complaints of public school parents, students and community members.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz). in 2015 settled a hostile work environment complaint for more than $48,000 out of the operating budget of a committee he oversaw, according to a report in the Washington Times.
And if a female student claimed that a bathroom or locker room that her school had her share with male students caused her to feel sexually vulnerable and created a hostile environment, the complaint would be difficult to dismiss, particularly since the federal government has interpreted Title IX broadly and said that schools must try to prevent a hostile environment.
In March, 36 teachers and employees took the unusual step of filing a hostile work environment complaint against the administration and students.
An appeals court overturned his death penalty sentence in March, and he was re-sentenced to 10 years in prison for "cooperating with a hostile government," his complaint states.
He did make a better point in his complaint about "hostile interview scenarios, with a duel between the interviewer and the politician".
