United States Fourth Circuit

In an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) suit on behalf of plaintiff-doctor against her former employer for creating a hostile work environment because of plaintiff's sex, district court's judgment in favor of the defendant is reversed and remanded as the EEOC has presented an issue of triable fact as what happened was not merely general crudity but a series of graphic remarks of a highly personal nature directed at a female employee by the sole owner of an establishment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/11/2010
• Decided 06/18/2010
• Published 06/18/2010

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and DAVIS, Circuit Judges, and C. ARLEN BEAM, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Anne Noel Occhialino, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Kenneth P. Carlson, Jr., Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:James L. Lee, Deputy General Counsel, Lorraine C. Davis, Acting Associate General Counsel, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Kristine M. Sims, Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellee.