United States Fifth Circuit

In an action alleging sex discrimination against the director of certain medical clinics, judgment for plaintiffs is affirmed in part where: 1) the evidence of defendant's harassment of other parties was highly probative to demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination at the clinics and relevant to all plaintiffs; and 2) the court of appeals could not conclude that the hearsay testimony admitted by the district court had more than a slight effect on the jury's verdict. However, the judgment is reversed in part where one plaintiff's placement on a two-week probationary period did not rise to the level of a tangible employment action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/24/2009
• Published 12/24/2009

Judges

• OWEN, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and OWEN and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Preston Edward Henrichson (argued), Marissa Carranza Hernandez, Law Offices of Preston Henrichson, Edinburg, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Holly Harvel Williamson, Lit. Counsel (argued), Fran Robin Aden, Hunton & Williams, L.L.P., Simon Jonathan Garfield, Ann M.H. Stephens, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.