Joe Long is a professional, fully versed in complicated issues such as Civil Rights Litigation regarding Section 1983 and Sexual Harassment. Joe has made his reputation fighting the government when his clients are wronged and takes cases many lawyers shy away from.
Sexual Harassment is a form of sexual discrimination, which is forbidden by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Sexual harassment involves unwanted sexual advances or other behavior that creates an atmosphere riddled with demeaning, insulting or pornographic references to sex or your gender. To read more, please visit our Sexual Harassment page.
When it was first introduced, the Civil Rights Act of 1871 was intended to protect southern blacks from the Ku Klux Klan by providing a civil remedy for abuses which were then common occurrences in the South. For nearly a century, the legal world in the United States did not think the act would pose as a check to officials, and those cases were rarely brought forth in court, until the 1961 Supreme Court case, Monroe v. Pape. Now Section 1983 is firm and powerful, protecting those whose rights are deprived by someone under the color of state or local law.
Section 1983, part of the Civil Rights Act, states that anyone who, under the color of state or local law, causes a person to be deprived of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, or federal law, is liable to that person. To determine if your claim falls under section 1983, two issues must be proven: a person subjected the accuser to conduct that occurred under color of state or local law, and this conduct deprived the accuser of civil rights, liberties, and immunities guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution or federal law. The most common disputes today involve freedom of speech, search and seizure, police brutality, cruel and unusual punishment and due process violations.