Legal Opinion
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 4, 1998No. 96-568PublishedCited by 3,557 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
This case presents the question whether workplace harassment can violate Title VII’s prohibition against “diserimina-t[ion]... because of... sex,” 42 U. S. C. §2000e-2(a)(I), when the harasser and the harassed employee are of the same sex.
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The District Court having granted summary judgment for respondents, we must assume the facts to be as alleged by petitioner Joseph Oncale. The precise details are irrelevant *77to the legal point we must decide, and in the interest of both brevity and dignity we shall describe them only generally. In late October 1991, Oncale was working for respondent…
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