Legal Opinion
Nurse "Be" v. Columbia Palms West Hospital Ltd. Partnership
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 6, 2007No. 06-12159PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SILER, Circuit Judge:
Columbia West Hospital Limited Partnership (“Palms West”) appeals the decision of the district court, following a jury trial, finding it liable to one of its former nurses, Bobbie Eicke O’Brien (“O’Brien”), for sexual harassment by Michael Chapar-ro, M.D., a physician with hospital privileges at Palms West, in violation of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and under Florida law. Palms West contends that the district court erred by: 1) failing to preclude O’Brien’s hostile work environment claim as a matter of law based on its Faragher/Ellerth1 affirmative defense; 2)…
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