Legal Opinion
Valerie A. Baskerville v. Culligan International Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 20, 1995No. 94-2837PublishedCited by 491 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A jury awarded Valerie Baskerville $25,000 in damages under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, for sexual harassment by her employer, Culligan International Company. Although reluctant to upset a jury verdict challenged only for resting on insufficient evidence, we have concluded that the facts, even when construed as favorably to the plaintiff as the record permits, do not establish a case of actionable sexual harassment.
Baskerville was hired on July 9,1991, as a secretary in the marketing department of Culligan, a manufacturer of products for treating…
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