Priest

OPINION AND ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO OVERTURN DECISION OF THE MAGISTRATE AND GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER

This matter comes before the Court on defendant’s motion for reconsideration of the Magistrate’s Order denying defendant’s motion to compel discovery and granting plaintiff’s cross-motion for a protective order. Plaintiff brought the instant action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., as amended, claiming that defendant sexually harassed her while she was his employee between February, 1978 and June, 1978. In her complaint, she alleges that defendant subjected her to hostile and offensive working conditions by sexually harassing her while she was employed as a waitress in his restaurant and bar, and that he terminated her employment because she would not submit to his demands for sexual favors. Defendant has denied these allegations and asserts, by way of defense, that the plaintiff was in fact the sexual aggressor in their relationship and that he justifiably terminated her employment because she was trying to meet and “pick up” male customers in his bar.

In order to garner evidence to support his…