Marzan v. Petit-Frere

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs failure to report sexual harassment is not an affirmative defense to a Title VII claim where plaintiff was discharged
• holding that “simple teasing ... offhand comments, isolated incidents (unless extremely serious)” are not discriminatory changes in the “terms and conditions of employment”
• recognizing that an employee's failure to use the employer's complaint procedure will normally satisfy the employer's burden regarding the second element of the affirmative defense
• holding that an employer’s vicarious liability for a hostile working environment is subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer’s conduct
• concluding that a single incident, where a supervisor “yelled' at [the plaintiff] and violently threw a book (thick notebook) on a table
• holding that an employer's conduct in preventing and correcting sexually harassing behavior is an affirmative defense to liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).