Corrado v. Township of Montclair

How courts have described this case

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

• holding employer liable for hostile environment sexual harassment under Title VII if the “employer knew or should have known of the harassment, and took no effectual action to correct the situation”
• degrading epithets “deriv[e] their power to wound not only from their meaning but also from the disgust and violence they express phonetically”
• “Except in situations where a proprietor, partner, or corporate officer participates personally in the harassing behavior,” an employee must “demonstrat[e] the propriety of holding the employer liable[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).