· 11/6/1996
Michelle Zimmerman v. Cook County Sheriff's Department, Michael F. Sheahan, and Sheriff of Cook County
Citations
- 96 F.3d 1017
How courts have described this case
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- “The sheer pervasiveness of the harassment might support an inference that the employer must have known of it ....” (citations omitted)
- employer is not liable for negligence if it lacked knowledge of the alleged harassment
- to establish “liability of an employer for sexual harassment by one nonsupervisory employee of another,” “[t]he plaintiff must prove that the employer was negligent in having failed to discover and prevent it”
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Judges: Posner, Coffey, Easterbrook
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