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Employer – Employee: Sexual Harassment – Timeliness – Attorney’s Fees
Stephanie Maniscalco//April 4, 2012//
Where the motivation for an employee’s transfer and termination created a genuine issue of material fact as to whether events were part of a series of interconnected acts of discrimination arising from a supervisor’s alleged sexual harassment of the employee, summary judgment for the defendant must be reversed, but where the plaintiff prevailed on only two of eight counts, the trial court could consider that in determining the appropriate amount of attorney’s fees, and the plaintiff also presented sufficient evidence from which a juror could find that the employer’s stated reason for firing the plaintiff was pretextual.
Judgment is affirmed in part; reversed in part; remanded.
Grissom v. First National Insurance Agency (MLW No. 63487/Case No. SD30821/SD30822 – 20 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Bates, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Scott County, Mitchell, Sp. J. (John P. Clubb, Cape Giradeau, for appellant) (James E. Spain, Poplar Bluff, for respondent).
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