5th Circuit Reissues Opinion In Nurse’s Harassment Suit After Attacks By Resident

Mealey's (February 11, 2019, 2:15 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 6 withdrew a June 2018 opinion in an appeal by a nurse seeking to hold her employer liable for a hostile work environment created by a patient and issued a new opinion holding that the evidence of persistent physical harassment by the patient was sufficient to allow a jury to decide the matter (Kymberli Gardner v. CLC of Pascagoula, L.L.C., No. 17-60072, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 3732)....