· 5/28/1996
Johnson v. Community Nursing Services
Citations
- 932 F. Supp. 269
- 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9452
- 69 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 44,335
- 74 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 995
- 1996 WL 376875
How courts have described this case
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- recognizing as discriminatory same-sex female harassment directed only to women perceived as potentially receptive to lesbian advances
- \Title VII makes no distinction based upon sexual orientation; the determinative question is not the orientation of the harasser but whether the sexual harassment would have occurred but for the gender of the victim.\
- “The fact that sexual preference may influence the sexual harassment should not be reason to diminish, let alone invalidate, the fact that a supervisor discriminated against an employee because of the employee’s sex.”
- female homosexual quid pro quo and hostile environment claims viable
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Judges: J. Thomas Greene
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