Legal Opinion
Billings v. Town of Grafton
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 7, 2008No. 06-2145PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
Nancy M. Billings, the former secretary to the Town Administrator for Grafton, Massachusetts, appeals from the entry of summary judgment in favor of the Administrator, the Town, and its Board of Selectmen on her claims of a hostile work environment and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2(a)(l), 2000e-3(a) (2003), and its state law analog, Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 151B, §§ 4(1), 4(4A) (2004). The district court ruled, as a matter of law, that (1) the Town Administrator’s alleged staring at Billings’s breasts did not…
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