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Seventh Circuit· 8/26/1996

Knox v. Indiana

Citations

  • 93 F.3d 1327
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 22009
  • 68 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 44,268
  • 71 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1519

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “there is nothing to indicate that the principle of employer responsibility does not extend equally to other Title VII claims, such as a claim of unlawful retaliation”
  • recognizing that a jury must be allowed to “evaluate the record as a whole and to decide whether the State ... retaliated against Knox ... by sitting on its hands in the face of the campaign of co-worker harassment about which it knew”
  • recognizing that a jury must be allowed to “evaluate the record as a whole and to decide whether the State . . . retaliated against Knox . . . by sitting on its hands in the face of the campaign of co-worker harassment about 42 which it knew”
  • requiring the plaintiff to establish the right link “between the employer and the coworkers, so that the employer can be held responsible for their actions”
  • noting possibility of a Title VII retaliation theory where a supervisor permits a plaintiff's \fellow employees to punish her for invoking her rights under Title VII\
  • upholding a jury verdict after recognizing that a company may be held liable for retaliation through their acquiescence in a coworker’s campaign of retaliatory harassment

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Judges: Evans, Rovner, Wood

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