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· 11/28/1990

Juanita GUESS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee

Citations

  • 913 F.2d 463
  • 1990 WL 134987

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that an employer’s liability for hostile-environment sexual harassment is based on “a negligence standard that closely resembles the ‘fellow servant’ rule” rather than on respondeat superior
  • affirming dismissal of plaintiff's sexual-harassment-related tort claims based on Indiana precedent establishing that such claims are \within the exclusive jurisdiction of the workmen's compensation law\
  • “A remedial measure that makes the victim of sexual harassment worse off is ineffective per se.”

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Judges: Wood, Cudahy, Posner

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