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· 6/18/1878

People ex rel. Hunt v. Kalamazoo Circuit Judge

Citations

  • 39 Mich. 123
  • 1878 Mich. LEXIS 231

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  • holding that even though men were also offended by daily stream of sexual and sexist antics, jury could reasonably find that female plaintiff was individual target of harassment
  • holding that a reasonable juiy could conclude that an incident involving a “vulgar song and picture, and [] graphic descriptions of sexual activity (espedially oral sex
  • noting that an employer is only liable if it “knew or should have known about the harassment and failed to stop it”
  • inferring discrimination in part because no male employee was subjected to same conduct as female plaintiff
  • finding sex-based harassment where plaintiff’s male coworkers maintained conversation around her where they portrayed women as being sexually subordinate to men
  • knowledge of harassment can be imputed to an employer if a reasonable person, intent on complying with Title VII, would have known about the harassment

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