Convoy Co. v. Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “In one sense, a supervisor is always aided in accomplishing hostile environment ... by the existence of an agency relationship with his employer. However, the common law rule does not use ‘aided’ is such a broad sense.”
• “[A]n agent is not acting within the scope of his employment when he is ‘going on a frolic of his own’.... In this scenario, the agent steps outside of his employment ... to further some personal end....”
• discussing indirect liability for sexual harassment under Title VII

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).