Wash. Supreme Court published opinion — 948461.pdf

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doubt that male supervisors can violate their male employees' rights to be free of
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Cornwell(Dawn) v. Microsoft Corp., No. 94846-1
(Gordon McCloud, J., dissenting)

sex discrimination in the workplace and so too can female supervisors vis-a-vis

female or male employees. See, e.g., Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Servs., 523

U.S. 75, 118 S. Ct. 998, 140 L. Ed. 2d 201 (1998)(sex discrimination includes

sexual harassment by male supervisor against male employee); Nichols v. Azteca

Rest. Enters., Inc., 256 F.3d 864 (9th Cir. 2001)(male coworkers' type of verbal

abuse of male employee constituted sexual harassment). I fear that the majority's

standard fails to take account of those discrimination claims.

In sum, the majority has not identified any facts showing that the

supervisors in this case knew or suspected that Cornwell previously engaged in

WLAD-protected activity. For that reason, I respectfully dissent.
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Cornwell(Dawn) v. Microsoft Corp., No. 94846-1
(Gordon McCloud, J., dissenting)