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· 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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