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INDEX

CERTIFICATES OF APPEALABILITY. See Jurisdiction, 3.

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.

1. Title VII—Sexual harassment—Employer’s vicarious liability—
Afﬁrmative defense.—An employer is vicariously liable for discrimination
caused by a supervisor, but subject to an afﬁrmative defense looking to
reasonableness of employer’s and victim’s conduct. Faragher v. Boca
Raton, p. 775.

2. Title VII—Sexual harassment—Job consequences—Afﬁrmative de-
fense.—An employee who refuses a supervisor’s sexual advances, yet suf-
fers no adverse, tangible job consequences, may recover against employer
without showing that employer is negligent or otherwise at fault for su-
pervisor’s actions; but employer may interpose an afﬁrmative defense
looking to reasonableness of employer’s and victim’s conduct. Burlington
Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, p. 742.

CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION. See Criminal Law, 2.

CLIENT FUNDS. See Constitutional Law, IX, 2.

COAL INDUSTRY RETIREE HEALTH BENEFIT ACT OF 1992. See

Constitutional Law, II, 1; IX, 1.

COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1934.

Filed-tariff requirements—Pre-emption of state-law claims.—Act’s
ﬁled-tariff requirements pre-empt state-law claims of respondent, a re-
seller of long-distance services, against petitioner, a long-distance service
provider, for breach of contract and tortious interference with contract.
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Central Ofﬁce Telephone, Inc.,
p. 214.

COMPREHENSIVE ENV IRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSA-

TION, AND LIABILITY ACT OF 1980.

Polluting facility—Parent corporation’s liability.—Unless corporate
veil may be pierced, a parent corporation that simply participated in, and
exercised control over, its subsidiary’s operations may not be held liable
under CERCLA as an “operator” of subsidiary’s polluting facility; but a
parent that actively participated in, and exercised control over, facility’s
operations may be held directly liable in its own right. United States v.
Bestfoods, p. 51.

COMPULSORY SELF-INCRIMINATION. See Constitutional Law,

VII.

CONSOLIDATED OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT OF
1985. See Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.