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Cite as: 524 U. S. 775 (1998)

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Syllabus

(e) There is no occasion to consider whether the supervisors’ knowl-
edge of the harassment could be imputed to the City. Liability on that
theory could not be determined without further factﬁnding on remand,
whereas the reversal necessary on the supervisory harassment theory
renders any remand for consideration of imputed knowledge (or of negli-
gence as an alternative to a theory of vicarious liability) entirely unjusti-
ﬁable. P. 810.

111 F. 3d 1530, reversed and remanded.

Souter, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist,
C. J., and Stevens, O(cid:146)Connor, Kennedy, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ.,
joined. Thomas, J., ﬁled a dissenting opinion, in which Scalia, J., joined,
post, p. 810.

William R. Amlong argued the cause for petitioner.
With him on the briefs were Martha F. Davis, Yolanda S.
Wu, and Eric Schnapper.

Irving Gornstein argued the cause for the United States
et al. as amici curiae urging reversal. With him on the
brief were Solicitor General Waxman, Acting Assistant At-
torney General Lee, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, C.
Gregory Stewart, Carolyn L. Wheeler, and Gail S. Coleman.
Harry A. Rissetto argued the cause for respondent. With
him on the briefs were Peter Buscemi, Mark S. Dichter,
Mark A. Srere, and Victoria E. Houck.*

*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were ﬁled for the American
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations by Jona-
than P. Hiatt, Marsha S. Berzon, and Laurence Gold; for the Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law et al. by Marc L. Fleischaker, Jack
W. Londen, Norman Redlich, Barbara R. Arnwine, Thomas J. Henderson,
Richard T. Seymour, Teresa A. Ferrante, and Steven R. Shapiro; for the
National Employment Lawyers Association by Margaret A. Harris and
H. Candace Gorman; and for the National Women’s Law Center, Equal
Rights Advocates et al. by Lois G. Williams, Nancy C. Libin, Jane L.
Dolkart, and Marcia D. Greenberger.

Briefs of amici curiae urging afﬁrmance were ﬁled for the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States by Stephen A. Bokat, Robin S. Conrad,
and Sussan L. Mahallati; for the Equal Employment Advisory Council by
Ann Elizabeth Reesman; for the National Association of Manufacturers
et al. by William J. Kilberg, Douglas R. Cox, Jan S. Amundson, and