Smith v. Northwest Financial Acceptance, Inc.

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• holding that, to establish severity, a plaintiff must, secondarily, demonstrate that the harassing conduct was sufficiently severe to create an objectively hostile environment
• holding evidence of six sexually derogatory statements over twenty-three months, some repeated frequently, sufficient to support a finding of pervasive harassment
• commenting that the “intimate office setting” of plaintiffs small office, which contained no partitions or walls, increased her humiliation and therefore the severity of the discriminatory conduct
• stating that, to establish severity, a plaintiff first must show that, subjectively, the complained of behavior created a hostile environment
• $200,000 emotional distress damages not excessive where plaintiff's symptoms included headaches, sleeplessness, and frequent crying

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