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Summary Judgment for Famous Dave's affirmed in sexual harassment case when Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found effective corporate response to a hostile work environment claim. 061851P.pdf 11/16/2007 Christine Brenneman v. Famous Dave'sU.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-1851 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Bye and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Manager of national casual dining restaurant harassed female employee for a few weeks, however corporate office representatives intervened and took steps to stop the harassment and offered to reassign the employee. Instead the employee resigned immediately and sued. Eighth Circuit affirms summary judgment; while the employee experienced harassment the restaurant upper management took corrective action and the employee's nearly immediate resignation did not amount to the employee's constructive discharge, making Famous Dave's eligible for the Ellerth-Faragher management defense (Burlington Indus., Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742, 765 (1998); Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775, 807-08 (1998)) .

Full post as published by Showmeblawgs on November 19, 2007 (boomark / email).