Union Pacific Dodges Male Worker’s Same-Sex Harassment Claim

Union Pacific Railroad Co. won a same-sex harassment lawsuit brought by an employee who said a male co-worker followed him into a restroom and asked him if he could urinate on demand.

Jess Mullanix also alleged that the co-worker touched his leg and “stalked” him as he walked to a parking garage. The allegations, if true, may have made Mullanix “uncomfortable,” Judge John M. Gerrard of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska said.

But they aren’t severe or repeated enough to sustain a harassment claim under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the judge ruled ...