190 | 2024 Cal-Peculiarities ©2024 Seyfarth Shaw LLP www.seyfarth.com at 435 n.7. Query whether a California court would adopt this reasoning to limit the definition of supervisor under FEHA, or, instead, would choose to justify vicarious employer liability by relying mechanically on FEHA’s literal statutory language. 171 Gov’t Code § 12940(j)(1). 172 Civ. Code § 1708.5. 173 Id. 174 See § 5.11.2 (Ralph Civil Rights Act, Tom Bane Civil Rights Act). 175 Civ. Code § 1708.7. 176 Civ. Code § 51.9. 177 SB 224, amending Civ. Code § 51.9 and Gov’t Code §§ 12930, 12948. 178 Hughes v. Pair 46 Cal. 4th 1035, 1048 (2009). 179 Knoettgen v. Superior Ct., 224 Cal. App. 3d 11, 15 (1990) (prior sexual assault not discoverable in sexual harassment case). 180 Tylo v. Superior Ct., 55 Cal. App. 4th 1379, 1388 (1997). 181 Rieger v. Arnold, 104 Cal. App. 4th 451, 464 (2002) (citing Evid. Code § 1106(b)). 182 Oncale v. Sundower Offshore Servs., Inc., 523 U.S. 75, 80, 81 (1998). 183 36 Cal. 4th 446 (2005). 184 Id. at 451. 185 Id. at 464. 186 Id. at 469. 187 Gov’t Code § 12940(j)(4)(C) (“Sexually harassing conduct need not be motivated by sexual desire.”). 188 Kelley v. Conco Co., 196 Cal. App. 4th 191 (2011). 189 Taylor v. Nabors Drilling USA, LP, 222 Cal. App. 4th 1228, 1238 (2014) (heterosexual male suffered sexual harassment when his coworkers’ workplace verbal attacks on his heterosexual identity—calling him “queer,” “faggot,” “homo,” and “gay porn star”—were used to harass him, regardless of whether the attacks against him were motivated by sexual desire). 190 SB 820, 2018 bill adding Civ. Proc. Code § 1001. The statutory language suggests that a violation of section 1001 would support a cause of action for civil damages. Id. § 1001(b). 191 SB 332, 2021 bill amending Civ. Proc. Code § 1001. 192 Id. § 1001(e). 193 Id. § 1001(c). 194 AB 3109, adding Civil Code § 1670.11. 195 SB 1300, adding Gov’t Code § 12964.5(a). 196 SB 332, 2021 bill amending Gov’t Code § 12964.5. 197 Gov’t Code § 12964.5(d). 198 Gov’t Code §§ 12964.5(b)(3), (4). 199 Gov’t Code § 12964.5(e). 200 SB 1300, adding Gov’t Code § 12923. 201 Brooks held that misconduct was insufficient to prove a sexually hostile environment where the harasser approached a co-worker as she was taking a call and put his hand on her stomach, commented on its softness, boxed her in as he stood by her chair, and forced his hand underneath her sweater and bra to fondle her breast, and approached her a second time as if he would fondle her again. 202 Notice of Approval of Regulatory Action (May 17, 2018), accessible at https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/wpcontent/uploads/sites/32/2018/05/NtcApproval1.pdf (visited Mar. 12, 2022). 203 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11027.1(a). 204 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11027.1(b). 205 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11028. 206 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11028(b), (c). 207 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11028(a). 208 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11028(k). 209 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11028(l). 210 Gov’t Code § 12951(b). 211 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11028. 212 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11028(d).
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