PORTER v. CALIFORNIA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 02-16537.

383 F.3d 1018 (2004)

Lawana PORTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 10, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven A. Hirsch and Daniel E. Jackson, Keker & Van Nest, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General; Jacob A. Appelsmith, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Vincent J. Scally Jr., Supervising Deputy Attorney General; and Diana L. Cuomo, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellee.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, TALLMAN, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.


CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:

In May 2000, Lawana Porter filed a complaint pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, against the California Department of Corrections ("CDC"). Porter alleged that she was the victim of continuing sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation as a result of her rejection of sexual advances by correctional officers Terry Wheeler and Pete DeSantis in 1995 and 1996.

The district court granted the CDC...

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