United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-employer in a sexual harassment case is reversed and remanded where: 1) plaintiff exhausted her administrative remedies; 2) defendant was not entitled to summary judgment on the question of how much oversight employers must exercise over shift supervisors; and 3) intervenors were entitled to protect their privacy interest in psychiatric records.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/30/2006
• Decided 07/28/2006
• Published 07/28/2006

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• H. Candace Gorman (argued), Gregory X. Gorman, Gorman & Gorman, (argued), Catherine Caporusso Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Marissa M. Tirona, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae, National Employment Lawyers Association.,, Melissa Josephs, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae, Women Employed., Paula R. Bruner (argued), EEOC, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission., Lyn Schollett, Springfield, IL, for Amicus Curiae, Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anthony J. Crement (argued), Franczek Sullivan, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.