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Article: Worker can sue for sex harassment, rules 6th Circuit
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- Lawyers USA
- Article date:
- May 26, 2009
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In a hostile environment claim, "sex specific" language satisfies
the "based on sex" element even though the language did not target
the plaintiff, the 6th Circuit has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
The plaintiff worked in an open office space with cubicles. She
alleged that she was forced to quit because her co-workers regularly
referred to women as bitches, whores and sluts, discussed their own
sexual practices and strip club exploits, and openly viewed porn at
work.
A trial court dismissed her Title VII claim because the language
was "indiscriminate" and not directed at the plaintiff, nor was it
"based on sex."
But the 6th Circuit disagreed.
"The natural effect of exposure to such ...