Case: Discrimination/Sexual Harassment (W.D. Va.)

The Buchanan County Public Service Authority is entitled to summary judgment on a female clerk’s claims of quid pro quo sexual harassment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the 14^th Amendment’s equal protection clause alleging she was transferred to another position and fired after being sexually harassed by her male supervisor, a Virginia federal district court ruled. The neck rubs and sexual jokes that the clerk alleged her supervisor committed weren’t sufficient evidence of sexual advances implicit enough to satisfy a quid pro quo sexual harassment claim, and her transfer to a new position ...