Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
- Decided
- March 4, 1998
- Docket
- 96-568
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 3,700 timesNo negative treatment found in this library
What later courts said
- holding that plaintiffs must prove more than that a comment was tinged with offensive sexual connotations — Hawkins v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (2008)
- concluding that actionable hostile work environment includes “general hostility to the presence of women in the workplace” — Aybike Kortan v. California Youth Authority Albert Atesalp I.R. Schulman Manual Carbajal (2000)
- holding that showing systemic harassment is not the only means of proving Title VII claim — Davis v. Coastal International Security, Inc. (2002)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents the question whether workplace harassment can violate Title VII’s prohibition against “diserimina-t[ion]... because of... sex,” 42 U. S. C. §2000e-2(a)(I), when the harasser and the harassed employee are of the same sex.
I
Statutes cited
Cite this
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., 523 U.S. 75 (1998)Read the full opinion
Free account needed
Reading the library on this site uses your account’s daily calls, the same as the connector and the API. The Free plan needs no card. Calls a day on each plan.