Key Case Law

Question 1

Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth

Answer 1

1998-
Distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.

Question 2

Faragher v. City of Boca Raton

Answer 2

1998-
Distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.

Question 3

Griggs v. Duke Power

Answer 3

1971-

Recognized adverse impact discrimination.

Question 4

Lechmere, Inc. v. NLRB

Answer 4

1992-

Stated that an employer cannot be compelled to allow nonemployee organizers onto the business property.

Question 5

Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.

Answer 5

2007-
Stated that claims of sex discrimination in pay under Title VII were not timely because discrimination charges were not filed with the EEOC within the required 180-day time frame.

Question 6

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

Answer 6

2012-
Stated that Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requirement that individuals purchase health insurance was constitutional but that requirement that states expand Medicaid was not.

Question 7

NLRB v. Weingarten

Answer 7

1975 -

Dealt with the right of a unionized employee to have another person present during certain investigatory interviews.

Question 8

Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp.

Answer 8

1971-
Stated that an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with preschool-aged children while hiring men with such children.