Hartsell v. Duplex Products, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “An insulting or demeaning remark does not create a federal cause of action for sexual harassment merely because the ‘victim’ of the remark happens to belong to a class protected by Title VII.”
• defendant’s statement that “[w]e’ ve made every female in this office cry like a baby” and isolated references to plaintiff as a slave and comments about buxom magazine pictures were “mildly offensive (and unactionable) utterances”
• not- ing four instances of others' gender-based derogatory office commen- tary
• outlining elements of hostile environment claim under Title VII

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).