Associated Press - August 28, 2009 11:25 AM ET

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Nebraska Supreme Court says someone who commits sexual harassment shouldn't be able to later sue the victim when the original harassment complaint was true.

So the high court declined Friday to intervene in a dispute between two Creighton University Spanish professors.

Creighton officials sanctioned Roxana Recio in 2004 for harassing Michelle Evers. Recio later sued Evers in 2006, saying the harassment complaint improperly interfered with Recio's job at Creighton.

Evers' original harassment complaint centered on a series of e-mails in Spanish that Recio sent to Evers in 2001. Recio disputes some aspects of the way Evers translated the e-mails, but the court says the evidence in the record supports the harassment complaint that Evers filed.

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