Mary Pat McDonnell and Thomas W. Boockmeier v. Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

How courts have described this case

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• holding that victims of “collective punishment” who are genuinely retaliated against should be protected under Title VII’s retaliation provision
• recognizing that an employee’s endeavors to obtain his employer’s compliance with Title VII can form the basis of a retaliation claim
• concluding that rumors of a woman’s “sleeping her way to the top” “could constitute a form of sexual harassment”
• concluding that rumors of a woman’s “sleeping her way to the top” “could constitute a form of sexual harassment”
• holding an investigation of sexual harassment that exceeds the proper limits is not a form of actionable sexual harassment in itself
• noting that \a difference in sex is not a necessary condition of sexual activity and hence (most courts think) of sexual harassment.\

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