# Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.

> Supreme Court of the United States · March 4, 1998 · 523 U.S. 75

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9433587

## Case

- **Full name:** ONCALE v. SUNDOWNER OFFSHORE SERVICES, INC., Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** March 4, 1998
- **Citations:** 523 U.S. 75; 11 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 365; 98 Daily Journal DAR 2100; 1998 Colo. J. C.A.R. 949; 66 U.S.L.W. 4172; 72 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 45,175; 76 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 221; 98 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 1511; 118 S. Ct. 998; 140 L. Ed. 2d 201; 1998 U.S. LEXIS 1599
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Thomas
- **Judges:** Scalia, Scaiia, Thomas
- **Cited by:** 3,557 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

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- explaining, in same-sex harassment case involving allegations of “sex-related, humiliating actions,” a physical assault done in a “sexual manner,” and a threat of rape, that “[i]n ... all[ ] harassment cases, [the relevant] inquiry requires careful consideration of the social …
- stating that when the harassing con- duct is not motivated by sexual desire, an inference of gender- motivated harassment may still be derived if a victim "is harassed in such sex-specific and derogatory terms . . . as to make it clear that the harasser is motivated by general…
- stating that when the harassing conduct is not motivated by sexual desire, an inference of gender-motivated harassment may still be derived if a victim "is harassed in such sex-specific and derogatory terms . . . as to make it clear that the harasser is motivated by general ho…

## Opinion text

Justice Thomas,
concurring.
I concur because the Court stresses that in every sexual harassment ease, the plaintiff must plead and ultimately prove Title VII’s statutory requirement that there be discrimination “because of... sex.”

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