Legal Opinion
Yolanda YOUNG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BAYER CORP., Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 5, 1997No. 96-3700PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The district court granted summary judgment for the defendant in this Title VII suit for sexual harassment. The plaintiffs appeal presents an important question: what is the lowest level in a corporate or other institu tional hierarchy at which notice to an employee of sexual harassment is deemed notice to the employer?
The plaintiff was a production worker in a chemical manufacturing plant. According to allegations that we must accept as true because of the procedural posture of the case, beginning in the middle of 1989 her foreman began harassing her sexually. The details…
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- Darla G. Hall, Patty J. Baxter and Jeannette Ticknor v. Gus Construction Co., Inc. And John MundorfCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988
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- Hurley v. Atlantic City Police DepartmentCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999
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