Bundy v. Jackson

641 F.2d 934 (D.C. Cir. 1981)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

P was a Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist, level GS-9, with the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (the agency). P received and rejected sexual propositions from Delbert Jackson (D), then a fellow employee at the agency but now its Director and the named defendant in this lawsuit in his official capacity. Burton became P's Burton began sexually harassing P in June 1974, continually calling her into his office to request that she spend the workday afternoon with him at his apartment and to question her about her sexual proclivities. Shortly after becoming her first-line supervisor Gainey also began making sexual advances to P, asking her to join him at a motel and on a trip to the Bahamas. P complained about these advances to Lawrence Swain, who supervised both Burton and Gainey. Swain casually dismissed Bundy's complaints, telling her that 'any man in his right mind would want to rape you,' and then proceeding himself to request that she begin a sexual relationship with him in his apartment. P rejected his request. The District Court made no explicit findings as to harassment of other female employees, but its finding that harassment was 'standard operating procedure' finds ample support in record evidence that P was not the only woman subjected to sexual intimidation by male supervisors. P appealed a denied for back pay and any declaratory or injunctive relief.