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Hotel settles sex harassment suit
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Posted on Dec 05 2011
By Ferdie de la Torre
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The owner of Hyatt Regency Saipan has settled the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a masseuse who alleged that the hotel’s assistant manager subjected her to sexual advances.
Attorneys Colin M. Thompson and Marcia K. Schultz, counsels for the masseuse and Saipan Portopia Hotel Corp. respectively, have notified the U.S. District Court for the NMI about their settlement.
Thompson and Schultz said the parties have reached a full and final settlement on the plaintiff’s claims and that the court should dismiss the lawsuit.
Pursuant to the settlement, the lawyers said, they have agreed that the matter be dismissed with prejudice in its entirety, meaning it cannot be re-opened.
The parties, however, agreed that the federal court will retain jurisdiction over this case in order to enforce the settlement agreement.
Each party will bear their own attorney’s fees and costs.
According to Thompson in the complaint, the sexual harassment included sexual advances and sexually charged and unwelcome physical contract by the hotel’s assistant manager.
The lawyer said the plaintiff was terminated soon after she complained of the sexual harassment to the hotel’s human resources department.
