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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Copenhaver grants in part and denies in part the motions of a former Wood County sheriff, the county commission and the prosecuting attorney to dismiss the respective claims alleged in a deputy sheriff’s suit for sexual discrimination and retaliation. The court dismisses the deputy sheriff’s Title VII claims against the prosecutor, former sheriffs and the commission in part because she failed to exhaust her administrative remedies when she failed to name them in her complaint with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. Finding she has alleged sufficient facts to satisfy all the required elements, the court rules the deputy’s suit may continue against not only the former sheriff on the grounds he created a hostile work environment, but also against him and the commission on a “discrete retaliation” claim because they allegedly acted in concert with the prosecutor to damage her reputation by placing her name on a “bad cop list.”