Legal Opinion
Mary Pat McDonnell and Thomas W. Boockmeier v. Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 20, 1996No. 95-1864PublishedCited by 169 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
These two consolidated suits, brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, charge sexual harassment by HUD, the plaintiffs’ employer, and also retaliation for complaining about the alleged harassment. The district judge granted HUD’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, so we take as true (of course without vouching for) the facts alleged in the complaint, which are as follows. In July 1993 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development received an anonymous letter accusing employees in HUD’s Chicago office of job-related sexual misconduct. The…
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