Murillo v. Rite Stuff Foods, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that deterrence is one object of antidiscrimi-nation statutes including Title VII and FEHA
• “An employer is strictly liable for damages an employee incurs as a result of a supervisor’s or agent’s sexual harassment.”
• workplace sexual harassment plaintiff not precluded from emotional distress claims arising from harassment during employment but was barred, in light of IRCA, from wrongful discharge damage claims
• employer potentially liable for punitive damages for ratifying acts of sexual harassment
• “A principal is liable when it ratifies an originally unauthorized tort.”
• principal is liable when it ratifies an originally unauthorized tort

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).