WB To Make Lois Jensens Story

[Monday, October 28th, 2002]
Warner Bros. Pictures is in final negotiations to pick up the novel "Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law," which Michael Seitzman will adapt, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Written by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, the project is described as "Norma Rae" meets "Erin Brockovich" and tells the true story of Lois Jenson, who in 1975 was a single mother on welfare and took a job working in the mines. In that male-dominated work force, she endured sexual harassment and, banding together with other women who worked there, filed a class-action suit against the company. After 25 years and three trials, Jenson prevailed.

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