Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
- Decided
- June 26, 1998
- Docket
- 97-282
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 6,226 timesNo negative treatment found in this library
What later courts said
- holding that plaintiffs failure to report sexual harassment is not an affirmative defense to a Title VII claim where plaintiff was discharged — Velázquez-García v. Horizon Lines of Puerto Rico, Inc. (2007)
- holding that “simple teasing ... offhand comments, isolated incidents (unless extremely serious)” are not discriminatory changes in the “terms and conditions of employment” — Murray v. Visiting Nurse Services of New York (2007)
- recognizing that an employee's failure to use the employer's complaint procedure will normally satisfy the employer's burden regarding the second element of the affirmative defense — Ola Jackson v. Arkansas Department Of Education (2001)
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How the opinion begins
[*780] Justice Souter delivered the opinion of the Court.
This ease calls for identification of the circumstances under which an employer may he held liable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §2000e et seq., for the acts of a supervisory employee whose sexual harassment of subordinates has created a hostile work environment amounting to employment discrimination. We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer’s conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.
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Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998)Read the full opinion
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