Legal Opinion

Panagiota Heath v. Southern University System Fdn

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided March 8, 2017No. 16-30625PublishedCited by 97 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:

Panagiota Heath is a math professor at Southern University’s New Orleans campus. When Mostafa Elaasar became her supervisor in 2003, she alleges he began a campaign of harassment that continued through the filing of this lawsuit a decade later. She' seeks to hold the school liable for the harassment under Title VII and Elaasar individually responsible under section 1983.

Although Heath’s allegations cover a substantial period of time, the trial court believed it could only consider the conduct occurring within 300 days of Heath’s filing of a complaint with the EEOC…

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