Pamela Kotcher and Barbara Davis, Pamela Kotcher v. Rosa and Sullivan Appliance Center, Inc., and Herbert Trageser

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• holding that employer is not liable for supervisor’s misconduct unless it provided no reasonable avenue for complaint or knew of supervisor’s misconduct but did nothing about it
• holding that isolated incidents or episodic conduct will not support a Title VII claim because the “incidents must be repeated and continuous; isolated acts or occasional episodes will not merit relief”
• finding that a supervisor who often pretended to masturbate and ejaculate at an employee behind her back had created a hostile work environment
• finding that a supervisor who often pretended to masturbate and ejaculate at an employee behind her back had created a hostile work environment
• noting that the supervisor was the highest ranking company official at the employment site, but did not occupy a position in the upper echelon’s of the company’s management
• noting that the supervisor was the highest ranking company official at the employment site, but did not occupy a position in the upper echelon's of the company's management

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