"Williams v. Saxbe" (1976) and "Paulette L. Barnes, Appellant, v. Douglas M. Costle, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency" (1977) determined it was sex discrimination to fire someone for refusing a supervisor's advances. Around the same time, "Bundy v. Jackson" was the first federal appeals court case to hold that workplace sexual harassment was employment discrimination. Five years later the Supreme Court agreed with this holding in "Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson." Another pioneering legal case was "Alexander v. Yale", which established that the sexual harassment of female students could be considered sex discrimination under Title IX, and was thus illegal.