Read Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. Sunbelt Rentals, Inc., 07-1123

In a suit by the EEOC alleging discrimination in the workplace on the basis of religion, summary judgment for defendant-employer is reversed where the EEOC established a genuine dispute of fact with respect to each element of its hostile work environment claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/31/2008
• Published 03/31/2008

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and Patrick Michael DUFFY, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Daniel Travis Vail, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Patricia J. Hill, Smith, Gambrell & Russell, L.L.P., Jacksonville, Florida, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Ronald S. Cooper, General, Carolyn L. Wheeler, Acting Associate General, Lorraine C. Davis, Assistant General, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Colin A. Thakkar, Smith, Gambrell & Russell, L.L.P., Jacksonville, Florida, for Appellee.