Sillars v. Nevada Ex Rel. Its Department of Employment, Rehabilitation, & Training, Employment Security Division

MEMORANDUM

Elizabeth Raffath Sillars brought this action under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , alleging that she had been subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace by a coworker. She contends that her employer did nothing to remedy the harassment and retaliated against her when she filed an internal complaint. The district court entered summary judgment for the defendants and Sillars appeals. We affirm.

I

Sillars’s evidence that she was subjected to sexual harassment is insufficient to withstand summary judgment. The treatment that Sillars faced in her workplace did not amount to actionable harassment. To give rise to liability under Title VII, harassment must be “sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment.” Harris v. Forklift Sys., Inc., 510 U.S. 17, 21 , 114 S.Ct. 367 , 126 L.Ed.2d 295 (1993) (internal quotation marks omitted). That is, the harassment must “create an objectively hostile or abusive work environment — an environment that a reasonable person would find hostile or abusive.” Id. We agree with the district court that the conduct in which Sillars describes her coworker as…