Renner v. Harsco Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a reasonable jury could find that employer’s corrective action was insufficient where harassment continued afterwards
• recognizing that pervasiveness of sexual harassment can lead to an inference of knowledge
• explaining that a plaintiff must establish the elements of a harassment claim in order for employer liability to attach
• noting that an inference of gender based discrimination is “easy to draw” if the harassment involves proposals of sexual activity
• affirming jury verdict based on hostile work environment theory where the evidence revealed “an environment polluted with gender-specific comments and behavior that exceeded ... mere flirtatiousness or baseness”
• fact that harasser treats men and women differently in workplace sufficient to show conduct based on sex

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).