High Court Won’t Touch 4th Circ.’s Sex Gossip Bias Ruling – Law360

Law360 (October 7, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT) — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review a Fourth Circuit decision allowing a fired female warehouse manager to move forward with claims of sex discrimination against her former employer based on allegations that a high-ranking superior and others spread a rumor that she slept with her boss to get a promotion.

Reema Consulting Services Inc. asked the high court to hear the case in May, after the Fourth Circuit revived Evangeline Parker’s Title VII suit claiming that she was subjected to a hostile work environment because of her sex and retaliated against for complaining about the bias.

The Fourth Circuit said in…

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