Pender v. Lancaster

How courts have described this case

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

• stating the requirement that the behavior be “sufficiently severe or pervasive to affect the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,” without requiring any showing of a diminution in output
• requiring the plaintiff to show “that either (a) the harassment was committed by a supervisor, or (b) the employer, through its agents or supervisory personnel, knew or should have known of the harassment and failed to take immediate and appropriate corrective action”
• “The amount of control that a landlord exercises over his tenant is not comparable to that which an employer exercises over his employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).