The Supreme Court first ruled on employer liability in the 1998 case of Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), a companion case to Burlington.
Plaintiff Beth Ann Faragher (AP Photo).
Personal account of Beth Ann Faragher
The Supreme Court Speaks: Meritor Saving Bank, FSB v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986)
In the first Supreme Court on sexual harassment, the Justices ruled in Meritor Saving Bank, FBS v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986) that Title VII prohibits both quid pro quo and hostile environment sexual harassment.
Michelle Vinson speaks to the Denver Post in 2017.