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I Cxnirt rules same-sex harassment | Senate votes for tough natitf illegal, new guidelines set up ursday WASHINGTON (AP) — On-the- job torment can be illegal sexual harassment even when the of fender and victim are the same sex, the Supreme Court said Wednesday in a decision that could touch virtually every Amer ican workplace. The court said same-sex harass ment can violate a federal anti-dis crimination law as it voted unani mously to revive a Louisiana lawsuit closely watched by the nation’s em ployers and gay-rights groups. In that lawsuit, a man alleged he was sexually harassed by three other men while working on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig. Wednesday’s decision provided important new guidelines for re solving sex-harassment claims, but plenty of questions remain about the legality of certain conduct in specific employment settings. “Common sense and an appro priate sensitivity to social context will enable courts and juries to dis tinguish” between what is legal and illegal, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court. “We’re very pleased with the commonsense standard the court adopted,” said Ann Reesman, a lawyer for the Equal Employment WANT TO EARN $$$ AND HELP ADVANCE SCIENCE? Individuals are needed to participate in a research study investigating factors related to driving accidents. Participants will complete a number of paper-and-pencil and computer- administered tests. You will receive $20.00 for 2 hours of participation. Must be over 25 years old, have good vision (normal or corrected), and a valid driver’s license. This study is being conducted by researchers in the Psychology Department of Texas A&M University. 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SHOW ONLY TICKETS $6 Advisory Council, an employers’ group. “This adds some clarity.” Gay-rights advocates also praised the ruling. “Civil rights law will no longer unfairly exclude same-sex sexual harassment, and this fact will benefit all American “[The Ruling] once and for all places sexual harrasment law squarely in the mainstream of anti-discrimination law.” Kathy Rodgers NOW Legal Defense Fund workers,” said Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign. The ruling allows victims of ho mosexual harassment to get into federal court even though Con gress never has said bias based on sexual orientation is illegal. Kathy Rodgers of the NOW Le gal Defense and Education Fund said the ruling “once and for all places sexual harassment law squarely in the mainstream of anti-discrimination law.” The term “harassment” does not appear in the text of the anti bias law known as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But the Supreme Court ruled in 1986 that sexual harassment amounts to dis crimination if it creates a “hostile environment” in the workplace. In subsequent rulings, the jus tices said a hostile environment can come about not only by overt ly sexual behavior but also by “dis criminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult... sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment.” Scalia’s seven-page opinion said, “We see no justification... for a categorical rule excluding same- sex harassment claims from the coverage of Title VII.” But he warned lower courts about mis taking “ordinary socializing in the workplace — such as male-on- male horseplay or intersexual flir tation — for discriminatory condi tions of employment.” All circumstances must be con sidered, Scalia said and gave the example of a football coach smacking the fanny of a player who’s heading onto the field. standards for drunken driv^" WASHINGTON (AP) — The money in fiscal 2002, and 10 per- Senate strongly endorsed tough cent after that, national standards for determin- Support for the new standard ing drunken driving on Wednes day, overcoming opposition from lawmakers who complained that Washington was meddling with state decisions. “I hope that the happy hour is over for drunk drivers,” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., one of the chief sponsors of the measure. He predicted that the tougher standard could save more than 500 lives a year. Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, the other chief sponsor, added: “This problem is much more than a state problem: it’s a national tragedy.” Anti-drunken driving groups estimate that in 1996, more than 17,000 of the 40,000 deaths on the nation’s highways resulted from alcohol-related accidents. By a 62-32 margin, the Senate urged states to set a .08 percent blood-alcohol content as the threshold for drunken driving. Currently, 15 states have that standard while 35 states use a more lenient .10 percent. States that do not accept the tougher standard would lose 5 percent of their federal highway crossed party lines, with 26 Re publicans — _ including stal- h wart conserv- atives such as j] Sens. Jesse j Helms and jj Lauch Fair- | cloth of North Carolina — joining 36 De mocrats. President Clinton, who had pressed for passage, thanked the Senate for acting and urged the House to follow suit. "It will save hundreds of lives each year.” he said at the White House. The drunken driving measure was presented as an amendment to a $173 billion, six-year highway funding bill. Coming up was anoth er highly contentious amendment that would seek to end a program giving 10 percent of construction contracts to women and minorities. “The first battle for a national uniform .08 law has been won," said Judith Lee Stone, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. “We nowtaij the halls of theHouS sentatives.” In the House,wfj lake up the transport hill, Hep.NitaI.owey,[ w ill ini induce a simlJ Ihe national stauf ei ally opposed bytlv* restaurant industries tended that .08 pc th a record low. 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