Legal Opinion
Audrey Jo Declue v. Central Illinois Light Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 2, 2000No. 00-1117PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This suit under Title VII by a female lineman for an electric company requires us to decide whether an employer’s failure to alter working conditions that just happen, without any discriminatory intent, to bear more heavily on its female than on its male employees can be an actionable form of sexual harassment.
The plaintiff, who became an apprentice lineman in 1994, complains about various acts of sexual harassment that occurred beginning then. But she did not file a complaint with the EEOC until 1997, and the judge ruled that she could not reach back to incidents that…
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