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Re:The Transformation of Sexual-Harassment Law Will Be Doubl... by ams6110 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:53PM (#15976023)
Reasons why the courts don't handle all these cases include lack of capacity, and because nobody has a right to an education at a particular school or a job with a particular company.

As long as they follow a defined process in each case, private organizations can generally adjudicate disputes internally. Because the limit of what they can do is expell or fire you, the stakes are lower and so is the burden of proof compared to what is needed for a criminal conviction.

Re:The Transformation of Sexual-Harassment Law Will Be Doubl... by jeffdavis on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:20AM (#15976637)
Unless the adjudication is secret, it creates a weird problem: what starts out as an unknown ("did the harassment happen or not?") becomes a fact ("he was fired for harassment"). That fact could follow the accused the rest of their life, and others may make judgements based on it, even if the original harassment claim was bogus and the adjudication a charade. Even of the accused finds exonerating evidence later, there would be no process to reverse it.