United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, summary judgment for defendant is reversed and remanded where: 1) the defendant's procedure for complaining about harassment failed to take the capabilities of its primarily teenage employees into account; 2) the judge erroneously attempted to resolve issues of material fact at the summary judgment stage; and 3) the plaintiff's mother acted as her agent when complaining about the harassment, thus the retaliation against the mother's complaint was in reality a retaliation against the plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/07/2007
• Published 11/07/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, FLAUM, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jennifer S. Goldstein (argued), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas P. Krukowski (argued), Krukowski & Costello, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.