United States Seventh Circuit

Evidence regarding arbitration and a company's collective bargaining agreement is inadmissible in a Title VII suit to show that an employer's response to sexual harassment was reasonable for the purpose of determining employer liability, but the evidence is relevant to show the propriety and determine the amount of punitive damages.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/29/2000
• Decided 06/27/2001
• Published 06/27/2001

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.**, Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER, EASTERBROOK, MANION, KANNE, ROVNER, DIANE P. WOOD, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Carolyn L. Wheeler (argued), Geoffrey L. Carter, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC, Stanley Pitts, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Detroit, MI, for plaintiff-appellee., Stanley C. Fickle (argued), Kenneth J. Yerkes, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, IN, for defendants-appellants.