Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
City of Belleville v. Doe ex rel. Doe
City of Belleville v. Doe ex rel. Doe, 523 U.S. 1001 (1998)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1998-03-09
- Topic
- bankruptcy
How later courts describe this case
- remanding the case in light of Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Servs., Inc., 523 U.S. 75, 118 S.Ct. 998, 140 L.Ed.2d 201 (1998)
- remanding in light of Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Servs., Inc., 523 U.S. 75, 118 S.Ct. 998, 140 L.Ed.2d 201 (1998)
- vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Oncale
- constant questioning of the male plaintiffs’ sex; ridiculing the plaintiffs for wearing an earring, threatening them with sexual assault, and grabbing one of the plaintiffs’ testicles to determine whether he was male or female sufficiently severe
- “[W]e have difficulty imagining when harassment of this kind would not be, in some measure, ‘because of the harassee’s sex — when one’s genitals are grabbed, ... it would seem to us impossible to delink the harassment from the gender of the individual harassed.”
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari granted, judgment vacated, and case remanded for further consideration in light of Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., ante, p. 75.