United States Seventh Circuit

In a Title VII suit alleging sex discrimination and retaliation by defendant-employer for its policy of assigning some correction officers' shifts in single-sex juvenile detention facilities on the basis of sex, judgment for defendant is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) sex-based assignments weren't reasonably necessary to achieve the facility's goals of privacy, security, and rehabilitation, and therefore an officer's sex could not be considered a bona fide occupational qualification that would except defendant from the requirements of Title VII; but 2) plaintiffs had not proven their harassment or retaliation claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2008
• Decided 08/20/2008
• Published 08/20/2008

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sandra Graf Radtke (argued), Gillick, Wicht, Gillick & Graf, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy R. Karaskiewicz (argued), William J. Domina, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellee.