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CUMMINGS v. KOEHNEN

No. C6-96-1118.

568 N.W.2d 418 (1997)

Richard S. CUMMINGS, Respondent, v. Charles E. KOEHNEN, et al., petitioners, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 28, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel, L.L.P., John D. Thompson, Kristen Paulson Gibbons, Eric J. Magnuson, Minneapolis, for Appellants.

M. Kevin Snell, Minneapolis, for Respondent.

State of Minnesota, Office of Attorney General, Erica Jacobson, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, for amicus curiae Commissioner of Human Rights.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.

OPINION

GARDEBRING, Justice.

This case raises for the first time the question of whether male-on-male sexual harassment is prohibited by the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), Minn.Stat. ch. 363, and, if so, whether a plaintiff in such a case must show that the harassment affected one gender differently than the other or that the harasser was homosexual. The trial court granted defendants' (here the appellants) motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's...

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