The plaintiff was the co-manager of a Save-A-Lot grocery store in Memphis, Tennessee, where her immediate supervisor sexually harassed her daily and threatened to kill her if she reported the harassment. She reported him and transferred to another store, but suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) and other psychological problems for which she sought medical treatment.
In Assamad v. Percy Square and Diamond Foods, LLC, the Louisiana First Circuit Court of to a A former employee sued a company for a sexually hostile work environment after experiencing quid pro quo workplace sexual harassment by a coworker.
The accused took a concoction of herbs with the intent to procure an abortion when she was six months pregnant and buried the fetus. She pled guilty to contravening the Termination of Pregnancy Act, which bans abortions subject to enumerated exceptions. She was sentenced to nine months imprisonment that were suspended on the condition that she complete 305 hours of community service. The issue under review was whether the conviction was proper without medical evidence to prove that the ingested herbal concoction could induce an abortion.
