Donna Randolph v. Ohio Department of Youth Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that liability to facility attaches where co- workers sat idly by as plaintiff was subjected to multiple physical attacks
• holding that a causal connection was established where the plaintiff employee was placed on leave within the same month that she complained about workplace sexual assaults and was terminated six months later
• holding that to succeed on her hostile work environment claim, “the conduct must be so severe or pervasive as to constitute a hostile or abusive working environment both to the reasonable person and the actual victim”
• finding that a single incident of harassment was insufficient to establish a hostile work environment “unless extremely serious”
• holding, in a Title VII retaliation case, that a causal connection was established where employee placed was terminated within six months of protected conduct
• determining that because the plaintiff “reasonably believed that her actions in reporting the harassment were protected activity, she satisfies the first element of her retaliation claim”

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