188 W. Va. 709 - Harmon v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on California ex rel. State Lands Commission v. United States · 162 W. Va. 116 - Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont · 169 W. Va. 673 - Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont · 102 S. Ct. 671 - Federal Deposit Insurance v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. (In re Megan-Racine Associates, Inc.) · 188 W. Va. 144 - Slack v. Kanawha County Housing & Redevelopment Authority
Most-quoted passages
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“In cases involving allegations of discharge from employment related to claims of sexual harassment or discrimination, a two-year statute of limitations for personal injuries begins to run on the date of the last offensive contact, or threat of offensive contact, which precipitated the termination of employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] plaintiff may, as an alternative to filing a complaint with the Human Rights Commission, initiate an action in circuit court to enforce rights granted by the [WVHRA],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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