Craig v. M & O AGENCIES, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing in the context of a hostile work environment that sexual harassment by one’s boss is more coercive than sexual harassment by a co-worker
• finding that the defendant’s conduct was sexual and unwelcome due to the plaintiff’s response to defendant’s advances
• identifying the elements of a prima facie case of a sex-based hostile work environment (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that while the supervisor's conduct was \physically less threatening\ then conduct alleged in other sexual harassment cases, the supervisor's \position as [the plaintiff's] immediate boss made his actions emotionally and psychologically threatening\
• identifying the elements of a prima facie case of a sex-based hostile work environment
• finding severe conduct where a male supervisor told his female subordinate to wear 6 shorter skirts, asked her out for drinks, asked her if she ever imagined having sex with him, 7 asked her to drink wine with him in a hot tub, and followed her into a bathroom

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