Alex F. Beamon v. Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding no inherently racial component to an employer giving an employee a critical, even an unfairly critical, performance review
• “not every perceived unfairness in the workplace may be ascribed to discriminatory motivation merely because the complaining employee belongs to a [protected group]”
• “There is no inherently racial component to an employer providing an employee with a critical (even an unfairly critical
• for purposes of evaluating a hostile work environment claim, “not every perceived unfairness in the workplace may be ascribed to discriminatory motivation merely because the complaining employee belongs to a racial minority”
• “[T]he alleged harassment must be sufficiently connected to race before it may reasonably be construed as being motivated by the defendant’s hostility to the plaintiff’s race.”
• “There is a presumption that the prevailing party will recover costs, and the losing party bears the burden of an affirmative showing that taxed costs are not appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).