United States Fourth Circuit

Where plaintiff unreasonably failed to take advantage of an effectively distributed corporate sexual harassment policy that is not otherwise defective or dysfunctional, a Title VII claim cannot stand.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2000
• Decided 02/13/2001
• Published 02/13/2001

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, TRAXLER, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Gary Mitchell Coates, Fralin, Feinman, Coates & Kinnier, P.C., Lynchburg, Virginia, for Appellant. Bayard Easter Harris, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, P.L.C., Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Daniel C. Summerlin, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, P.L.C., Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.