Waltham v. Town of Mullally

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Restatement (Second) of Torts § 317, an employer may be liable for one employee’s workplace sexual harassment of another employee
• holding that under Restatement (Second) of Torts § 317, an employer may be liable for one employee’s workplace sexual harassment of another employee
• refusing to extend the common law employer intentional tort test to claims of sexual harassment
• stating that federal courts have held that “where an employee is able to sexually harass another employee because of the authority or apparent authority vested in him by the employer, it may be said that the harasser’s actions took place within the scope of his employment”
• workers’ compensation statute in Ohio does not provide exclusive remedy for claims based on sexual harassment in the workplace
• where the appellees raise separate types of claims for relief, but the allegations within the claims are essentially duplicative, dismissal of one claim is proper

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