Thornton v. Federal Express Corp.

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• holding that an employer \generally satisfies\ prong one of the test \when it has promulgated and enforced a sexual harassment policy\
• concluding that a plaintiff acted unreasonably in part because after years of escalating harassment, she did not report the harassment until two months after taking a leave of absence
• explaining that the mere fact that an employer took an adverse action against an employee after he engaged in protected activity is insufficient to justify an inference that there was a causal connection between the two events
• upholding a grant of summary judgment on alternate grounds when the party opposing summary judgment responded to the new decisional grounds
• citing, inter alia, Faragher, 524 U.S. at 807; Burlington Indus., Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742, 765 (1998)
• citing, Faragher , 524 U.S. at 807 , 118 S.Ct. 2275 ; Ellerth , 524 U.S. at 765 , 118 S.Ct. 2257

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