Legal Opinion
Vera v. McHugh
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 6, 2010No. 08-1886PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
In this action pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), the plaintiff, Rosa Linda Vera, alleged that she was sexually harassed by a coworker and subsequently by a supervisor at the Fort Buchanan Army garrison in Puerto Rico, and then fired in retaliation for filing her sexual harassment complaints. Both claims of sexual harassment involved allegations depicting a hostile work environment. The district court found that Vera’s first sexual harassment claim was not properly before it because she had failed to exhaust her administrative remedies…
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