The plaintiff was denied unemployment benefits by the Employment Security Board because prior to quitting her job, she did not notify her business manager that she was being sexually harassed by her supervisor. The plaintiff appealed.
The plaintiff worked for the defendant as a police officer. During training, where the plaintiff was one of three women amongst twenty-four participants, she began to feel that she could never raise complaints because of her gender due to comments about how the male troopers better “watch out” or she would charge them with sexual harassment, or about another female trooper whose sex discrimination complaint had been dismissed by the Board.
In Raynes v. Rogers, the parties lived together for approximately six years. Following their separation, the plaintiff moved out, and the parties had a dispute regarding the ownership of some belongings and animals. On one occasion, the plaintiff went to the defendant’s house for dinner, and they got into an argument. The plaintiff picked up the defendant’s small dog and took it with her to leave. This led to the defendant kicking the plaintiff’s car door and using physical force against her to recover the dog.
