Opinion ID: 3044846
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Heading: Alleged Sexual Harassment by Defendant Powers

Text: On February 21, 2005, Plaintiff Green began working for defendant MOBIS. At the times relevant to this lawsuit, Green worked in the Paint Department at MOBIS. In December 2010, Jeremy Powers began working the same shift in the Paint Department that Green worked. Powers was a Team Leader, which is an hourly-paid, non-supervisory position. In April 2011, Powers was promoted to a supervisor position, subject to a training period. Plaintiff Green alleged that, in January 2011, Powers began sexually harassing her by sending inappropriate text messages (including graphic pictures), staring at her, making untoward comments, and touching her inappropriately. On April 6, 2011, Green anonymously reported Powers’s harassment through MOBIS’s UPLINK system, which consisted of suggestion boxes placed around the facility. It is undisputed that this method of reporting was not consistent with MOBIS’s policies concerning the reporting of sexual harassment. Nonetheless, in late May or early June 2011, MOBIS sought a response and formal argument that has not been briefed before the court is deemed abandoned and its merits will not be addressed”) (quotation marks omitted). 3 Case: 14-11328 Date Filed: 05/26/2015 Page: 4 of 21 complaint from the still-anonymous UPLINK submission and MOBIS management also began an investigation into Powers’s behavior. During the investigation, MOBIS interviewed Green, among other employees, who verbally reported Powers’s harassment. On June 21, 2011, Powers was terminated.3