Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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In Acque v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2023 WL 4365307 (D.N.M. July 6, 2023), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim. From the decision: Plaintiff has failed to produce evidence from which a rational jury could infer that…

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In Giramur v. Honorable Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, 2023 WL 4216152 (W.D.Tex. May 24, 2023), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss her hostile work environment sexual harassment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Plaintiff’s allegations, held the court, were insufficiently specific: Plaintiff alleges…

Read More Sexual Harassment Claim Dismissed; Sexually Explicit Pictures, Alone, Were Insufficient
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In Shi v. Batgatelle International, Inc., 220-cv-8473 (ER), 023 WL 4187557 (S.D.N.Y. June 26, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s race and national origin discrimination claims. While defendant alleges that it terminated plaintiff due to her performance, plaintiff alleges that she was terminated because of her race, national…

Read More Race, National Origin Discrimination Claims Against Bagatelle Survive Summary Judgment
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In Gonzalez v. Spitzer Autoworld Homestead, Inc., No. 22-cv-21590, 2023 WL 3303180 (S.D.Fla. May 8, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claim of hostile work environment sexual harassment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: Here, the record shows that before the…

Read More Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Summary Judgment; Allegations Include Repeated Asking Out Plaintiff and Biting Her Breast
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In Romero v. St. Vincent’s Services, Inc., 2023 WL 3477161 (2d Cir. May 16, 2023), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of plaintiff’s claims of gender and pregnancy discrimination. From the decision, regarding plaintiff’s claims asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: We…

Read More Pretext Not Shown in Gender/Pregnancy Discrimination Case; Dismissal Affirmed
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In U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Golden Entertainment, Inc., No. 20-cv-02811, 2023 WL 4134696 (D.Md. June 22, 2023), 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. As to the issue of whether the…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Summary Judgment; Evidence Included Sexual Comments and Buttocks Groping
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In Stein v. Attorney General United States of America, 2023 WL 3993014 (3d Cir. June 14, 2023) (not precedential), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff’s claim of hostile work environment sexual harassment asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In this case, the…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Dismissal Was Proper in Light of Defendant’s “Prompt,” “Effective” Response: 3rd Circuit
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In Pianko v. General R.V. Center, Inc. et al, Case No. 20-cv-13371, 2023 WL 3938852 (E.D.Mich. June 9, 2023), the court denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s hostile work environment sexual harassment claim. From the decision: A reasonable jury could find that Miller’s alleged conduct in the hotel room was subjectively and objectively…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim, Based on “After Hours” Conduct, Survives Summary Judgment
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In Kocher v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Civil Action No. 22-3808, 2023 WL 3689702 (E.D.Pa. May 26, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s retaliation claims asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. the court held that…

Read More Retaliation Claim, Based on Adverse Actions Following Filing of EEO Complaint, Sufficiently Alleged
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In Rabinowitz v. St. Joseph’s Regional High School, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, Civil Action No. 18-16498 (JXN) (ESK), 2023 WL 3597633 (D.N.J. May 23, 2023), the court denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claim of religion-based hostile work environment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New…

Read More Student-on-Teacher Anti-Semitic-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Survives Summary Judgment
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