While most of these statements are flatly true (our own research indicates there are, in fact, eight Islamic countries that punish homosexuality by death), Tufts nonetheless found that the article constituted harassment because it allegedly "targeted members of the Tufts Muslim community for harassment and embarrassment, and "Muslim students felt psychologically intimidated by the piece".
My international fellow workers would publicly use my sexual orientation as the target of their jokes or disclose it in front of the local staff, behaviour which may have constituted harassment by the law in their home country.
A few months back, the Union of Concerned Scientists called out a small nonprofit funded by organic food growers for sending FOIA requests to several dozen pro-GMO scientists; it claimed that the requests were inappropriate and implied that they constituted harassment.
"Certain actions of Coach Rice did 'cross the line,' " the report said, and those actions "constituted harassment or intimidation".
The teacher, Mary Snead, sent over by the State Human Affairs Commission, talked at length about what constituted harassment, putting special emphasis on offensive remarks and jokes.
Kori's call and Tistadt's response sparked online debate among area students about whether the student's actions constituted harassment and whether the response was warranted.
Team officials said that they had investigated the allegations and found there was a consensual sexual relationship between Phillips and the woman, but nothing that constituted harassment.
In addition to several lawsuits in which offensive e-mail was used as an example of a work environment hostile to blacks or women, there has already been one lawsuit that claimed electronic dialogue alone constituted harassment.
The report on the Dolphins found that Martin had been the victim of racist, sexually explicit, homophobic and misogynistic messages, and that his interactions with Incognito constituted "harassment". Incognito was suspended for eight games by the league.
It was a unanimous 1986 Supreme Court decision, written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the court's most conservative judge, that endorsed a vast expansion of the law, broadly affirming the principle that an employer is liable for the actions of a supervisor who sexually harasses a subordinate, as well as endorsing the idea that a "hostile work environment" constituted harassment.
