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Stockett v. Tolin
Facts
From December 1985 through April 1987, Michelle Ann Stockett, a 29 year old, workedfor three companies that are related and substantially integrated called Limelite Studios, Inc., Directors Production Company, and Limelite Video, Inc. (collectively, Corporate Defendants). Corporate Defendants was substantially owned by Frank Tolin, a 71-year-old man. Consistently, Tolinwould touch and speak to Stockett in a vulgar, sexual manner by pressing against Stockett in a manner that she would be unable to move, grab her breasts, stick his tongue inside her ears, and lick her neck. Also, Tolinwould constantlymake explicit, coarse, and degrading statements to Stockett about her sex with her. At all times, Stockett opposed Tolin’s advances, but continued working there because she needed the work and wanted to obtain experience in the industry. Tolin was an extremely successful man with a net worth in millions of dollars.Tolin’s employees knew ofhis sexual conduct, almost every female in the company had been subject to his sexual advances, and there were many witnesses to Tolin’s harassment of Stockett. Subsequently, on April 1987, Tolin threatened to terminate Stockett if she did not sleep with him. Stockett quit her job and brought suit against Tolin and Corporate Defendants on the basis of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, as well as battery, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Stockett introduced evidence of past and ongoing damages from Tolin’s conduct including gastrointestinal conditions, loss of self-confidence, and an inability to trust men. The parties stipulated to a nonjury trial.
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