United States Ninth Circuit
Freitag v. Ayers, 03-16702, 03-17184, 03-17398
A state department of corrections may be held liable for prison officials' failure to correct a hostile work environment that is the result of male prisoners' sexual harassment of female guards.
Appellate Information
- Argued 03/15/2006
- Decided 09/13/2006
- Published 09/13/2006
Judges
- Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, JOHN T. NOONAN, and MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Jacob A. Appelsmith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Vincent J. Scally, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Pamela Y. Price and John L. Burris, Oakland, CA, and Charles Stephen Ralston, Berkeley, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.