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CHAMPION v. NATION WIDE SECURITY, INC.

Docket No. 100521, (Calendar No. 6).

450 Mich. 702 (1996)

CHAMPION v. NATION WIDE SECURITY, INC.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chambers, Steiner (by Angela J. Nicita, Louis G. Corey, and Michelle J. Harrison) for the plaintiff.

Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by Ernest R. Bazzana), for defendant Nation Wide Security, Inc.

Amici Curiae:

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Robert L. Willis, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.

Stark & Gordon (by Sheldon J. Stark, Carol A. Laughbaum, and Martha I. Seijas) for National Lawyers Guild, Paul J. Denenfeld for American Civil Liberties Union, James Schuster for Michigan Employment Lawyers Association, Jeffrey Meyers for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, Julie Field for University of Michigan Women and the Law Clinic, and Elizabeth K. Bransdorfer for Women Lawyers Association of Michigan.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C. (by Alison B. Marshall and Charles S. Mishkind), for Michigan Manufacturers Association and Employers' Association.

BRICKLEY, C.J.

In this case, we must decide whether an employer is liable for quid pro quo sexual harassment under MCL 37.2103(i); MSA 3.548(103)(i) where one of its employed supervisors rapes a subordinate and thereby causes her constructive discharge. We hold that an employer is liable for such rapes where they are accomplished through the use of the supervisor's managerial powers. We believe that this result best effectuates the remedial purpose of the Civil Rights...

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