United States Ninth Circuit

Offensive conduct that is not facially sex-specific may violate Title VII if there is sufficient circumstantial evidence of qualitative and quantitative differences in the harassment suffered by female and male employees.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/11/2005
• Decided 09/02/2005
• Published 09/02/2005

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge., Before GOODWIN, BRUNETTI, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jennifer S. Goldstein, EEOC, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellant., Kenneth R. Friedman, Friedman, Rubin & White, Bremerton, Washington, Terry A. Venneberg, Tacoma, WA, for the plaintiffs-intervenors-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremiah A. Collins, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee NEA., Leslie Longenbaugh, Simpson, Tillinghast, Sorensen & Longenbaugh, Juneau, AK, for defendant-appellee NEA-Alaska.