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Clifford v. American Drug Stores8/22/2005
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After Stange had her epileptic seizure at work, Featherstone asked Maddocks why he had behaved as he did during the incident, and Maddocks replied, " e're like police officers, when they get one of ours we get one of theirs." When Featherstone asked what he meant, Maddocks told him that his behavior was in retaliation for Russ Doose. Maddocks said he did not like Stange, and he was going to "get her" because of an ongoing sexual harassment situation. Featherstone reported the remarks to Maddocks's superior, district manager Ken Weber.
Clifford had been Featherstone's general manager at the Baldwin Park store. In January 1998, he told her about Maddocks's remarks and about what he had been doing to Stange.
Deena Ryan testified that she began working for Sav-On in November 1993, received regular raises and promotions, and by 1997, was working at the Diamond Bar store as a supervisor, with 30 employees reporting to her. She reported directly to the manager, and was in charge of the store when the manager was not there.
In May 1997, Russ Doose became a market manager, assigned to the Diamond Bar as his home store. In June, two employees, Judy Stange and Tammy Carranza, complained to Ryan about him. Mike Perez was the district loss prevention manager, and Ryan was required to report sexual harassment allegations to him; so, while Carranza was with her in her office, Ryan telephoned him and reported the allegations to him. She again reported them to the company in August 1997.
Stange brought to Ryan's attention a videotape that showed Stange and Doose interacting. The tape was from one of the cameras arranged throughout the store and had been recorded during business hours. Reviewing it prompted Ryan to tell Stange that Doose had been doing "unmentionable [things] in sexual manner" to her, beginning about a week after he began work there. When Ryan told Doose that he could get into big trouble for what he was doing, he replied, " o you know how many times sexual harassment has been brought up and nothing has ever been done?"
On August 6, 1997, when Ryan was absent from work due to the death of her grandmother, Perez called her in to work and accused her of taking an unauthorized discount that had, in fact, been authorized. When she went in, she began discussing the sexual harassment, but he stopped her, saying that they were there to discuss the discount issue, not sexual harassment. During the remainder of 1997, Ryan's keys were taken away, her hours were cut from 32 to 40 per week to 16 hours per week, and she was scheduled to work on weekends, even though she was unable to do so. She left the company's employ in November 1998.
Ryan retained an attorney in September 1997. The attorney reported her complaints to the company, but no one interviewed her about them or about Stange's complaints, until her deposition was taken in April 1998. By t
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