Legal Opinion
Georgia Erickson v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 14, 2006No. 05-4516PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Georgia Erickson, a payroll and benefits specialist at the Wisconsin Correctional Center System (WCCS), a division of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDC), brought suit against her employer under Title VII’s hostile work environment doctrine and § 1983 after she was raped by John Spicer, an inmate at the Oregon Correctional Center (OCC). The OCC, an all-male minimum security prison also under the authority of WDC, is housed in the same building as WCCS. A jury ultimately found for Erickson, and the district court (Chief Judge Barbara B. Crabb) denied WDC’s Rule…
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