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· 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

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

  • 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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