United States Second Circuit

Evidence at trial was insufficient to establish that a corrections officer was subjected to a hostile work environment under Title VII, where the officer was merely embarrassed by the boorish behavior of unidentified co-workers and a "dumb joke" by one fellow officer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/25/2002
• Published 06/26/2002

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, JACOBS and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Andrea Oser, Assistant Solicitor General, Albany, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Nancy A. Spiegel, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee., Michael J. Sciotti, Hancock & Estabrook, LLP, Syracuse, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.