United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action by female corrections officers claiming that the institution failed to remedy a sexually hostile work environment that male inmates created for female employees, judgment for plaintiffs is affirmed where: 1) there was no reason to treat prison inmates differently from other third-party harassers and prisons differently from other employers under Title VII; 2) a reasonable jury could have found that prison officials should have enforced the inmate dress policy, which required inmates to wear pants when female staff were in the close management dorms; and 3) the refusal of the district court to instruct the jury about the Faragher defense did not prejudice defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2010
• Published 05/10/2010

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before PRYOR and FAY, Circuit Judges, and QUIST, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel