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142402P.pdf 06/25/2015 Chavonya Watson v. Heartland Health Laboratories
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-2402
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Employment discrimination. The district court did not err in
finding a nursing home patient's conduct towards plaintiff, an employee of
a service performing blood work at the home, was not so severe that it
rose to the level of actionable hostile work environment sexual
harassment; since the conduct did not affect a term, condition or
privilege of plaintiff's employment, defendant was entitled to judgment as
a matter of law on plaintiff's hostile-work environment claim; a
reasonable person would not have found plaintiff's work environment
intolerable and defendant was entitled to judgment on plaintiff's claim
for constructive discharge; plaintiff did not suffer any adverse action as
a result of her complaints against the patient nor did she show any causal
connection between any action defendant took and the complaints she made.