Legal Opinion
Cummings v. Koehnen
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 28, 1997No. C6-96-1118PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GARDEBRING, Justice.
This case raises for the first time the question of whether male-on-male sexual harassment is prohibited by the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), Minn.Stat. ch. 363, and, if so, whether a plaintiff in such a case must show that the harassment affected one gender differently than the other or that the harasser was homosexual. The trial court granted defendants’ (here the appellants) motion for summary judgment on plaintiffs sexual harassment claim, holding that a claim of sexual harassment between two heterosexual men in an all-male workplace is not actionable under…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1993
- State Ex Rel. Cooper v. FrenchSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1990
- Phil Quick v. Donaldson Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- Valerie A. Baskerville v. Culligan International CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
- Sandra G. Bundy v. Delbert Jackson, Director, D.C. Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
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3Cited by61 opinions
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