Karilyn Bonomolo-Hagen, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Clay Central-Everly Community School District, David Holmquist, Defendant-Petitioner

The District Court, applying precedent from the Northern District of Iowa, and observing that our Court had not yet definitively resolved the question, held that as the plaintiffs supervisor defendant David Holmquist could be held individually hable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Accordingly, the District Court denied Holmquist’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs Title VII claims against him, but certified the question pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), thus permitting Holmquist to seek an interlocutory appeal.

Holmquist’s petition for permission to appeal is granted, and the…