United States Eleventh Circuit

In a hostile work environment action based on the frequent use of gender derogatory language addressed specifically to women as a group in the workplace, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where the evidence was sufficient to afford the inference that the offending conduct was based on the sex of the employee.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/21/2010
• Published 01/21/2010

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON, BIRCH, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS, WILSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Douglas L. Micko, Schaefer Law Firm, LLC, Minneapolis, MN, Byron Renard Perkins, The Cochran Firm, Birmingham, AL, Kell A. Simon, Ross Melton, Austin, TX, Michael D. Lieder, Sprenger & Lang, PLLC, Washington, DC, for Reeves., Jennifer S. Goldstein, Dori K. Bernstein, EEOC, Office of Gen. Counsel, Rae Thiesfield Vann, McGuiness, Norris & Williams, LLP, Washington, DC, Alicia K. Haynes, Haynes & Haynes, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret Campbell, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Atlanta, GA, David Lynn Warren, Jr., Sandra B. Reiss, Christopher A. Mixon, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.