Madeline E. Brown v. William J. Henderson, Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service

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• affirming summary judgment where the true reason for harassment was a union leadership dispute, not plaintiff’s sex
• affirming summary judgment for defendant where the evidence established that “the hostility toward [the plaintiff] was grounded in workplace dynamics unrelated to her sex”
• affirming grant of summary judgment to defendants in Title VII case where female plaintiff was subjected to “highly cruel and vulgar” harassment, but harassment did not reflect an attack on plaintiff as a woman
• affirming grant of summary judgment to defendants in Title VII case where female plaintiff was subjected to \highly cruel and vulgar' \ harassment, but harassment did not reflect an attack on plaintiff as a woman
• stating “the fact that both male and female employees are treated similarly, if badly, [gives] rise to the inference that their mistreatment shared a common cause that was unrelated to their sex.”
• collecting cases for the proposition that workplace parity laws protect individual plaintiffs

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