A New York federal judge refused Wednesday to toss hostile work environment claims from Suffolk Laundry Services Inc. workers who said they were repeatedly sexually harassed, leaving intact a case being pursued by several women and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
U.S. District Judge Margo K. Brodie also rejected a claim from the commercial laundry's owners — Walter and Cathy Sullivan — that they couldn't be held individually liable for the hostile work environment claims leveled in the intervenor complaint the current and former workers lodged in March 2012, less...