Telemundo Employee’s Sexual Harassment, Retaliation Suit Revived

Telemundo Network Group LLC’s victory on a female sales worker’s sexual harassment and retaliation claims was premature, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday, citing errors by a lower court.

These errors included relying on circuit precedent involving summary judgment to reject Matilde Santana’s reprisal allegations at the motion-to-dismiss stage, the three-judge panel said in an unpublished opinion.

Santana “unquestionably engaged in protected activity” under anti-retaliation law by repeatedly complaining about her supervisor’s sexual harassment, including internally and through her lawyer, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said. And Santana’s suit linked her protected activity to the subsequent ...