Inman v. Brice Realty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an employer perceived the risk of violating federal law where that employer merely knew of an anti-discrimination poster in the workplace
• denying summary judgment where plaintiff was “subjected, on a daily basis, to verbal assaults of the most vulgar and humiliating sort”
• overturning judgment as a matter of law after concluding that \barrage\ of sexual comments directed at plaintiff on \daily basis\ (including a threat to rape her) was \unquestionably sufficient\ to create a jury question as to whether the conduct was actionably severe or pervasive
• overturning judgment as a matter of law after concluding that “barrage” of sexual comments directed at plaintiff on “daily basis” (including a threat to rape her) was “unquestionably sufficient” to create a jury question as to whether the conduct was actionably severe or pervasive
• “Anderson was subjected, on a daily basis, to verbal assaults of the most vulgar and humiliating sort.”
• punitive damages available when an employer “has discriminated in the face of a known risk that his conduct will violate federal law”

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