Legal Opinion
Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 26, 1998No. 97-282PublishedCited by 5,876 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
This ease calls for identification of the circumstances under which an employer may he held liable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §2000e et seq., for the acts of a supervisory employee whose sexual harassment of subordinates has created a hostile work environment amounting to employment discrimination. We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer’s conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.
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