Smith v. Northwest Financial Acceptance

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• plaintiff met subjective element by her testimony that she felt humiliated and upset by the hostile sexual nature of her supervisor’s comments
• public setting only increased the humiliation, and therefore severity of conduct
• conduct must be severe or pervasive enough to create both “ ‘an objectively hostile or abusive work environment — an environment that a reasonable person would find hostile’ — and an environment the victim-employee subjectively perceives as abusive or hostile.”

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