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Dec. 1, 2013

Reel Law

Legal Moments at the Movie House

"It takes a village to do what's being done here. ... [There are men] in the pit and in the office with a foot on the throat of every woman in that mine."

- Lawyer Bill White (Woody Harrelson) seeks first-ever class status for a sexual harassment lawsuit in North Country (2005). His client, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron), alleged long-standing, egregious harassment by her coworkers at a mine in northern Minnesota. The story was inspired by Class...

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