In re Ellerbee

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that at one time rape victims “ran the risk of finding their own moral characters on trial during the prosecution of their assailants”
• holding in a civil case that the policy of protecting victims of sexual harassment from inquiries regarding their sexual history is equally applicable at the discovery stage and at trial
• finding “the annoyance and discomfort which the plaintiff obviously suffered as a result of defendant’s inquiries unnecessary and deplorable”
• “[T]his Court is concerned with the potential of the requested discovery to harass, intimidate, and discourage the plaintiff in her efforts to prosecute her cause.”
• discovery of plaintiff's sexual history prohibited

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).