Dawson v. Florida Bar

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• concluding that we predicate liability for sexual harassment under the Equal Protection Clause on some governmental authority that the defendant has over the plaintiff
• recognizing that “constructive 4 In state court, Ms. Peterson filed an unsuccessful lawsuit concerning the denial of early retirement benefits. See Peterson v. Sweetwater County Sch. Dist. No. One, 929 P.2d 525 (Wyo. 1996
• noting that imposition of supervisory liability “requires ‘allegations of personal direction or of actual knowledge and acquiescence’”
• concluding liability for sexual harassment under the Equal Protection Clause is predicated on some governmental authority that the defendant has over the plaintiff
• noting that “[n]ormally, a single recent case from one circuit is not sufficient to make the law clearly established in another circuit”
• finding fact question as to constructive discharge where plaintiffs testified to retributive conduct including exclusion from office conversations, exclusion from meetings, and being laughed at by coworkers

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