Sex / Gender Discrimination

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In Pachura v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary, Department of Defense, 6:21-CV-0316 (LEK/ATB), 2022 WL 1909546 (N.D.N.Y. June 3, 2022), the court denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s hostile work environment sexual harassment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court summarized plaintiff’s allegations, in sum, as follows: Between…

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In Chen v. Jewish Bd. of Family and Children’s Services, Inc., No. 525625/18, 2022 WL 1540178 (N.Y. Sup Ct, Kings County May 13, 2022), the court dismissed, on summary judgment, plaintiff’s claims of gender discrimination and hostile work environment asserted under the New York City Human Rights Law. As to plaintiff’s discrimination claim, the court…

Read More Sex/Gender-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Dismissed; “Insensitive” Comments Amounted to “Petty Slights and Trivial Inconveniences”
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In Howard et al v. Cook County Sheriff’s Office et al, No. 17 C 8146, 2022 WL 1404833 (N.D.Ill. May 4, 2022), the court held that plaintiffs – female corrections officers – presented enough evidence to overcome defendants’ motion for summary judgment on their claims of hostile work environment sexual harassment (by detainees) under Title…

Read More Jail Employees’ Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claims Survive Summary Judgment
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In Cruse v. Bi-State Development Agency of Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District, No. 4:20-cv-366-MTS, 2022 WL 1185149 (E.D.Mo. April 21, 2022), the court, inter alia, held that factual issues precluded summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims of sexual harassment. In sum, plaintiff alleged that her supervisor (Brew) sexually harassed her, both in person and by phone, and that…

Read More Sexual Harassment Claim(s) Survive Summary Judgment; Factual Issues Existed as to Whether Harassment Culminated in a “Tangible Employment Action” Etc.
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In Grant v. Baltimore Police Department, No. RDB-21-2173, 2022 WL 1321593 (D.Md. May 3, 2022), the court, inter alia, dismissed plaintiff’s claim of hostile work environment asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This case illustrates that not everything negative that happens to an employee in the workplace will give rise…

Read More Title VII Race- and Gender-Based Hostile Work Environment Claims Dismissed; Single Comments Insufficient
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In Erno v. New York State Office of Information Technology Services, No. 1:19-CV-1457, 2022 WL 1224325 (N.D.N.Y. April 26, 2022), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s hostile work environment sexual harassment claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (but not under the New York State Human…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim, Against NYS Office of Information Technology Services, Survives Summary Judgment
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In U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Green JobWorks, LLC, Civil Action No. RDB-21-1743, 2022 WL 1213478 (D.Md. April 25, 2022), the court held that plaintiff sufficiently alleged claims of sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After summarizing the “black letter” law, the court applied it to…

Read More EEOC Sufficiently Alleges Sex Discrimination on a “Pattern or Practice” Theory, Court Holds
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In Dunham v. Hartford Board of Education, No. HHD-CV-206129681-S, 2022 WL 1223917 (Conn. Super. April 26, 2022), the court, inter alia denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s hostile work environment sexual harassment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: A hostile work environment claim requires…

Read More Sexual Harassment (Hostile Work Environment) Claim Survives Summary Judgment Against Hartford Board of Education
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In Saketkoo v. Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund, 2022 WL 1183824 (C.A.5 (La.), 2022), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, inter alia, affirmed the lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant on plaintiff’s gender-based hostile work environment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.…

Read More Gender-Based Title VII Hostile Work Environment Claim Properly Dismissed: Fifth Circuit
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