Navy Officer Paula Coughlin was awarded $5.1 million for being groped while running a vulgar gauntlet amidst a group of Navy fliers. She did not sue the Navy, who sponsored the now-infamous Tailhook conference, or the individual fliers (both men and women) who had let the event get out of hand, but rather the Hilton Hotel chain for failing to prevent the Navy fliers' bawdy revelry that she had come down from her hotel room specially to attend.

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