Faye Haugerud v. Amery School District

How courts have described this case

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• reversing district court’s grant of summary judgment when the district court incorrectly found that there was no issue of disputed fact after inaccurately summarizing plaintiffs numerous claims of sexual harassment
• finding “problems with sleep, depression, and weight gain, as well as several incidents in which she was brought to tears” as a result of her work environment to be subjectively abusive
• “[I]t would be reasonable to conclude that a male [employee] would not have been treated the same way.”
• where male custodians instructed not to help female custodians and employer gave plaintiff additional responsibilities above those expected of male custodians, but plaintiff suffered no material harm, plaintiff did not suffer adverse employment action
• “An adverse employment action might occur when an employer orders its employees to shun the plaintiff, provided that this activity causes material harm to the plaintiff.”
• employer may only be held vicariously liable for the acts of those who can be considered the employer’s proxy--an individual holding a sufficiently high position in the management hierarchy of the company

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).