Since the nineties, there has been a surge of Sexual Harassment Cases Won. The United States changed and created laws in order to protect individual against unwanted sexual misconduct. Burlington Industries v. Kimberly Ellerth demonstrates one of the many cases where an individual felt humiliated and embarrassed by the employer, which led to a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court stating "that workers can still bring sexual harassment cases against employers even if the harassment is not reported and the employee's career is never hurt. This ruling was despite the fact that Ellerth never experienced a set back professionally and she failed to report the incidents at work. Another notable case occurred with the Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore services. In the first part of the ruling, the male oil-rig worker was declared exempt from protection of the 1964 legislation, which prohibits sexual harassment The decision was appealed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1998 by a ruling which stated that sexual harassment applies to members of the same sex as well.