Since 1977, the United States acknowledged some behaviors as relating to a form of sex discrimination, such as a person who is higher up than another, seeking some kind of sexual favors from an employee and an employers responsibility to prevent or restrain the behavior of the said harasser as liable to suit. Court cases involving sexual harassment were rare, until the 1991 Anita Hill claimed Clarence Thomas made unwelcome advances towards her a few years earlier when she had worked for him. This case made national headlines, along with the Tailhook scandal, which involved sexual hazing in a navy gathering in Las Vegas by a male officer. Individuals the victim of other student in sexual harassment were given the right to seek damages when the school district failed to discipline other student in 1992. In 1998, the Supreme Court began to recognize people as protected from harassment of others who were the same sex.