Introduction On the afternoon of May 8, 1991, Arkansas state employee Paula Corbin Jones—of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission-- works the registration desk at an official industrial conference in Little Rock, Arkansas (Motos, 1998). While working this event housed in an Arkansas hotel, the Governor of Arkansas requests Jones to meet with him in a business suite within the hotel. Therefore, Jones understood this request to be within the official state employee business. Hence, Jones obliged the governor’s request. Jones alleged that the governor made unwanted sexual advances towards her which she explicitly rejected (Motos, 1998). Consequently, Jones reported she suffered adverse employment action by her superiors, who “treated her rudely and changed her job responsibilities” (Motos, 1998). The governor of …show more content…
Detailed Background of the Case Paula Corbin claimed that while she was an Arkansas state employee, she suffered several "abhorrent" sexual advances from then Arkansas Governor Clinton (OYEZ, n.d.) Jones states that she rejected and denied the then Governor Clinton’s advances. Consequently, Jones reported she suffered adverse employment action by her superiors, who “treated her rudely and changed her job responsibilities” (Motos, 1998). However according to Jones, the incident did not end with Clinton’s presidency; there were lingering effects. She claimed that once Clinton became the President, she was defamed by various person authorized to speak for President Clinton, who denied that the incident ever occurred and branded her a liar (Motos, 1998). In order to seek justice for her perceived loss, Jones filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against President Clinton and another defendant in 1994 (Motos,
Before Clinton was elected President he had an encounter with Paula Jones in a hotel room. After Clinton took office Paula Jones then sued Clinton for sexual harassment. A short time later Monica Lewinsky began her intern at the White House. Clinton and Lewinsky began a sexual relationship. Judge Kenneth Starr was the investigator of Whitewater. President Clinton denied any sexual relations with Lewinsky. On October 8, 1998, the House would vote to have an impeachment and won. Clinton was charged with perjury and obstruction to justice. Bill Clinton would end up not getting kicked out of office by senate.
through a public way online, which seemed very unprofessional. I think the outcome of her getting fired
In the case of U.S. v Jones, the judicial branch had to address the questionable topic of whether or not the Fourth Amendment was violated (). Since this case was not black and white and did bring up many questions as to what was constitutional, the judges had to use judicial review. Judicial review is the power that allows judges to interpret the meaning of laws (Class, March 13). Once a law is understood a certain way, the people must follow it (Class, __). The U.S. v Jones case deals with the Bill of Rights (United, 1). This is due to the circumstance that the Fourth Amendment is included in the Bill of Rights document stating that “searches and seizures” cannot be done without a warrant (Class,___). The case of U.S. v Jones was about the violation of Jones’s Fourth Amendment when a GPS device was placed on his jeep without his consent because he was suspected of drug possession (United, 1). Since judges have the power to informally amend the Constitution using judicial review (Class, ___), they must take into consideration many contributing elements when making a decision.
In response to his alleged affair with Ms. Monica Lewinsky, who at the time was an intern at the White House, President Clinton took to a national broadcast to clear his name. In his testimony, Clinton begins with a formal and slightly apologetic tone, and then subtly shifts the blame from his actions to the nosiness of the American public, victimizing himself. There were four different tone shifts in this particular speech, and he uses this to his advantage in turning the spotlight away from his private life, and to national issues. In his address, President Clinton uses a wide variety of rhetorical devices to convince his audience, the American people, that his stance on the matter is the most valid, and to reestablish his credibility,
The first major set back of President Bill Clinton arose from a series of events following the filing of a lawsuit on May 6, 1994, by Paula Jones in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas(Starr). Ms. Jones alleged violations of her federal civil rights in 1991 by President Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas and she was an Arkansas state employee. According to the her allegations, Governor Clinton invited Ms. Jones to his hotel room where he made a sexual advance that she rejected.
What she wants most is for the truth to come out and for her story to be heard.
Before stepping into the critical analysis of the speech, it is important to understand the historical setting from which the speech arose. The context can be briefly summarized as the following. In 1995 Clinton had a sexual relationship with one of his White House interns by the name of Monica Lewinsky. On January 17, 1998, a sexual misconduct lawsuit against him was filed. Clinton then quickly delivered a forceful public statement that he did not have a sexual relationship with the woman. However, unknown to President Clinton, Linda Tripp, one of Lewinsky’s associates, had recorded several conversations of Lewinsky describing her affair with the President. In the seven months afterwards, Kenneth W. Starr, the StarWhitewater independent counsel, had began collecting evidence of the affair and carrying out investigation about Clinton’s obstruction of justice. Evidence of Clinton lying under oath would be grounds for impeachment. On August 17, 1998, Clinton decided to a...
Professor Devane had written a male-bashing book entitled “Wolves and Sheep.” The book had created quite a controversy and Professor Devane had appeared on numerous talk shows. Dr. Delaware discovered that Professor Devane had set up a committee at the university where she was employed. This committee was established to assist students who claimed to have been sexually harassed by other students. There were only three cases handled by the committee before the head of the university dissolved it.
The United States Supreme Court decided to hear Clinton v. Jones during a period in the nation’s history where its political background was split between a Democratic president and a Republican-controlled Congress. The political stage was at gridlock, and the Republican base was successfully striking down any of President Clinton and the Democratic Party’s proposed legislation and projects. No more than two year earlier, has their conflicts resulted in government shutdowns over the issues of Medicare, education, and the federal budget. So when Paula Corbin Jones attempted to take President Clinton to court over sexual allegations, the Republican Party was more than eager to decrease the President’s authority over presidential immunity and to lower his reputation with U.S. society. This political and social atmosphere would affect the legal outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision.
Petrocelli, William, and Barbara Kate Repa. Sexual Harassment on the job. Berkeley: Nolo Press, 1994
Employment at will is a law that is present in all fifty states in the US; although, in Montana there requires a stated cause for termination. Employment at will creates dissent among employees when they have been terminated for a cause that is thought to be unsubstantial or when no cause is given. There are pros and cons to the presumption, and employees and employers have different views. Employment at will means that the employer can terminate an employee at any time, for any cause without warning. However, even an at-will employee cannot be terminated because of discriminatory reasons. Employment at will also means that an employee can leave a job at any time without the fear of facing any legal consequences. An employer can also change the terms of employment without notice and no penalties. Throughout this paper, the two sides to employment at will will be discussed, and different examples of employment at will cases will be given. At its most basic, employment at will is not the best path because it can create feelings of violation and betrayal in the employee and can create a negative public opinion or loss of profit for the business.
During an authorized plant inspection by Ruben Warshovsky, part of the unionization campaign, the union representative would stop and address employees ¡§Hello, I am Ruben Warshovsky from the United Textiles Workers Union of America,¡¨ or some other greeting identifying himself as a union representative while traveling through the plant. Management threatened to get an injunc...
Sexual Harrassment in the Federal Workplace. (n.d.). Brandeis University. Retrieved February 15, 2014, from http://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/teenSH1/PDFarticles
Lately, the top story in the news day after day, months after months have been about William Jefferson Clinton, also known as Bill. Who could blame them, there is nothing better than a story out of the ordinary, especially one with presidential status. For the past months he has been the most talked about figure, being the essential topic for news, talk shows, late night comedy and even going as far as the big screen. Talk about 'Primary Colors' and 'Wag the Dog.' What has gotten to me the most however, were the constant flow of Republicans, along with a few Democrats, who just want to say how shocked and embarrassed they are along with the people of the United States.The president had not just become the most talked about figure, but also one history had ever seen, so far that is, breaking the record and becoming a topic of conversation and debate 'twenty-four seven.' The people, who I think were most affected by this crisis and feel very sad for, are the Republicans, since they had lost severe amount of sleep over the president's bedroom crisis. They had to perform their republican duties by shocking our brains with the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky. We had to ignore the rest of the world news and its issues while they plough through the valley of lies, abuse of power and something they called high crimes and misdemeanors.
She was chosen by the Mayor to achieve a specific set of goals which included developing better relations with customers, handling environmental controls more efficiently, and overall making the department a more professional environment to work (Brock, 1996a, p. 1). Taking the initiative to conquer the goals at hand by conducting an investigation to ensure that regulations were being followed by her employees, Reardon was efficiently responding to the Mayor’s imminent priorities. This bureaucracy also displayed neutral competence as it had not let any outside interference undermine what Reardon had been trying to accomplish. The mayor allowed for Reardon to do what she felt to be necessary, while also reframing from commenting to the press about the situation. Reardon had not let any outside or external pressures influence her, thereby allowing her the opportunity to communicate openly and honestly with her employees of the circumstances and conduct a reasonable and fair