Supreme Court of Texas
Waffle House, Inc. v. Williams, 07-0205
In a suit for sexual harassment against an employer under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA) and common law negligent supervision and retention, judgment of the court of appeals is reversed and remanded as, where the gravamen of a plaintiff's case is TCHRA-covered harassment, the Act forecloses common law theories predicated on the same underlying sexual harassment facts, and here, plaintiff's negligence claim is premised on the same conduct that the TCHRA deems unlawful.
Appellate Information
- Argued 03/12/2009
- Decided 06/11/2010
- Published 06/11/2010
Judges
- Justice WILLETT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice GUZMAN joined.
Court
- Supreme Court of Texas
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- W. Wendell Hall, Mark Thomas Emery, Ralph H. Duggins, Thomas S. Brandon Jr., Lynn Waller Kelly, for Waffle House, Inc., Susan E. Hutchison, S. Rafe Foreman, Kern A. Lewis, for Cathie Williams.