California Court of Appeal

Under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, evidence that a supervisor told employee of same gender that he needed oral sex or that employee was a whore is sufficient to support a claim of sexual harassment despite evidence that use of profanity was common and that employee and his coworkers often told jokes with sexual content.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/08/2001
• Published 05/08/2001

Judges

• CURRY, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Benedon & Serlin, Douglas G. Benedon, Woodland Hills, and Gerald M. Serlin;  Mancini & Gallagher, Marcus A. Mancini, Valencia, Mary Ann Gallagher, and David A. Cohn, Woodland Hills, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey, Jon D. Meer, and Christopher J. Manfredi, for Defendants and Respondents.