One of the tricky things about the U.S. legal system is that people have to arrange their grievances to fit the existing law. The woman who won a $500,000 judgment against the company that spanked employees deserves every penny. However, it should give us all pause for thought that the lawsuit had to be constructed around sexual harassment. Are we really missing the legal foundations to defend workers against deliberate humiliation by superiors? Why wasn’t this a class action suit?