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· 2/28/1940

Lowden v. Denton

Citations

  • 110 F.2d 274
  • 1940 U.S. App. LEXIS 4522

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that when a supervisor engages in “affirmatively harassing acts,” he “flouts [his] duty” and “subjects himself and his employer to liability”
  • concluding that “knowing inaction by a high-level employee with responsibility over [plaintiff] and her harassers could . . . rise to the level of substantial assistance”
  • stating that failure to consider a jury-instruction error omitting an element of a claim “would result in a miscarriage of justice”
  • observing that a female employee’s work environment may be “altered as a result of witnessing a defendant’s hostility towards other women at the workplace”
  • observing that a supervisor may be held personally liable under the NJLAD as an “aidor and abettor” for his own “active harassment”
  • noting that aiding and abetting liability may lie for “harm resulting to a third person from the conduct of another ”

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Judges: Gardner, Moore, Rough, Wood

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