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In a September hearing before an employee appeals panel in Drogheda, Ireland, Paula Levins, 36, claimed the accounting firm M.A. Whately dismissed her because she was unwilling to share an office with an excessively flatulent coworker. Levins said that she was pregnant at the time and that the man’s gas exacerbated her nausea, especially in winter when the windows were closed.
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A Texas judicial discipline panel issued a public reprimand in April to former judge Robert Hollman, who resigned early in 2000 following a female employee’s sexual harassment complaint. According to the panel, Hollman played an almost daily, nonconsensual “bondage game” with the woman in which he bound her hands and ankles, gagged her, and then timed her to see how quickly she could escape.
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