{"id":5267,"date":"2025-04-13T21:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/10m-sexual-harassment-verdict-reversed-after-judges-extreme-and-bizarre-remarks\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:40:39","slug":"10m-sexual-harassment-verdict-reversed-after-judges-extreme-and-bizarre-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/10m-sexual-harassment-verdict-reversed-after-judges-extreme-and-bizarre-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"$10M Sexual Harassment Verdict Reversed After Judge&#8217;s &#8216;Extreme and Bizarre&#8217; Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A state appeals court on Monday overturned a $10 million sexual harassment verdict citing a Los Angeles trial judge&#8217;s missteps in admitting evidence and his &#8220;extreme and bizarre&#8221; comments about race and gender.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The Second District Court of Appeal District Eight said Superior Court Judge Robert Draper should not have allowed the plaintiff, a Los Angeles Community College District employee, to introduce 20-year-old newspaper articles about her alleged harasser&#8217;s expunged misdemeanor convictions. Nor, the unanimous three-justice panel <a href=\"https:\/\/www4.courts.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/B327997.PDF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>wrote<\/u><\/a>, should a student have testified about her harassment complaint against a different district administrator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state appeals court on Monday overturned a $10 million sexual harassment verdict citing a Los Angeles trial judge&#8217;s missteps in admitting evidence and his &#8220;extreme and bizarre&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2756,5510,5509,1532,915,5511,3856,301,395],"class_list":["post-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-10m","tag-bizarre","tag-extreme","tag-harassment","tag-judges","tag-remarks","tag-reversed","tag-sexual","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}