As sexual harassment cases go, Seybert v. International Group Inc. doesn’t have especially shocking allegations, but the trial that began in U.S. District Court on Monday could nonetheless prove to be legally significant for several reasons.

Although plaintiff Susan Seybert points to just three “overtly sexual” incidents, she claims that her complaints about those events led to a much larger campaign of retaliatory harassment in which she was belittled and criticized and ultimately cheated out of a raise and an end-of-year bonus as a punishment for blowing the whistle.

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