Amazon Female Asian Manager Unable to Revive Sex Harassment Suit

A female Asian former Amazon.com Inc. shift manager couldn’t convince the Third Circuit to revive her bias, harassment, and retaliation claims.

Emily Sousa, who is Japanese-American and resigned from Amazon in 2021, alleged she was subjected to sexual overtures from her manager and retaliation for declining his advances, according to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s unpublished, per curiam Monday opinion. The panel affirmed a district court’s dismissal of Sousa’s complaint with prejudice for a failure to plead each of her Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 claims.

• While her manager’s after-hours phone calls were “intrusive,” ...