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Ninth Circuit: No Summary Judgment on Male Guard Supervision of Female Prisoners Ban

Loaded on March 5, 2015 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News March, 2015, page 46
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Gender Discrimination -- Men, Title VII. Location: California.

Ninth Circuit: No Summary Judgment on Male Guard Supervision of Female Prisoners Ban

by Mark Wilson

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on July 2, 2014 that a claim that a jail policy banning male guards from supervising female prisoners violates Title VII’s prohibition against sex …

 

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