United States Eleventh Circuit

In suit alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, including claims that supervisor frequently used profanity, referred to staff using profane terms, and propositioned plaintiff, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed as: 1) defendant showed not only that it fulfilled its responsibility to prevent or correct workplace harassment, but also that the plaintiff failed to promptly report alleged harassment; and 2) defendant had a non-retaliatory reason for firing plaintiff in that plaintiff refused to cooperate in the defendant's reasonable attempt to solve the problem.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/19/2007
• Published 03/19/2007

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and JORDAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roderick T. Cooks, Lee David Winston, Winston Cooks, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Baldwin.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alysonne O. Hatfield, John Richard Carrigan, Peyton Lacy, Jr., Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.