Furukawa v. Honolulu Zoological Society

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, unlike Title VII, the HDEPA extends protection against employment discrimination to all employees, not just employees of employers with fifteen or more employees
• noting that while federal law and “a federal court’s interpretation ... [of that law] is not binding on this court’s interpretation of civil rights laws, it can be a useful analytical tool”
• adopting the “similarly situated” employees analysis in Pierce v. Commonwealth Life Ins. Co., 40 F.3d 796 (6th Cir.1994)
• adopting the \similarly situated\ employees analysis in Pierce v. Commonwealth Life Ins. Co., 40 F.3d 796 (6th Cir.1994)
• looking to federal court decisions on Title VII employment discrimination cases for guidance in employment discrimination case under Hawai #i Statute
• discussing Act 275 as a response to “concerns that victims of sexual harassment were often so traumatized by the occurrence that they might fail to file with the commission within 180 days” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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