Alfano v. Costello

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that in order to make out a hostile work environment claim, plaintiff must provide evidence indicating that the defendant’s actions were motivated by discrimination
• holding that plaintiff asserting hostile work environment must link the hostile conduct to her protected class
• holding that, despite periodic hostility over four years and four incidents with overtly sexual overtones, the plaintiff did not establish a hostile work environment as a matter of law
• holding that factoring facially neutral incidents into the “totality of circumstances” “requires some circumstantial or other basis for inferring that incidents [neutral] on their face were in fact discriminatory”
• stating that incidents must be continuous and concerted, rather than episodic, to be deemed pervasive
• finding that memorandum placed in plaintiffs personnel file, the merely “good” evaluations, formal counseling and an internal investigation of plaintiff, were insufficient to establish hostile work environment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

171 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ashcroft
  Second Circuit· 2003-07-17· cited 988×
• Feingold v. New York
  Second Circuit· 2004-04-30· cited 605×
• Alfano v. Costello
  Second Circuit· 2002-06-25· cited 536×
• Kelly v. Howard I. Shapiro & Associates Consulting Engineers, P.C.
  Second Circuit· 2013-04-26· cited 340×
• DiStiso ex rel. DiStiso v. Cook
  Second Circuit· 2012-08-21· cited 333×
• Theresa Waldo v. Consumers Energy Company
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-08-09· cited 235×
• Lester v. Natsios
  District of Columbia· 2003-10-07· cited 225×
• Fox v. Costco Wholesale Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2019-03-06· cited 217×
• Risco v. McHugh
  S.D. New York· 2012-06-14· cited 213×
• Senno v. Elmsford Union Free School District
  S.D. New York· 2011-07-28· cited 210×
• Bermudez v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2011-03-25· cited 168×
• Demoret v. Zegarelli
  Second Circuit· 2006-06-08· cited 162×
• Bowen-Hooks v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2014-03-31· cited 137×
• Nurriddin v. Goldin
  District of Columbia· 2005-08-17· cited 136×
• Duch v. Jakubek
  Second Circuit· 2009-12-04· cited 126×
• Nieblas-Love v. New York City Housing Authority
  S.D. New York· 2016-02-26· cited 113×
• Hill v. Rayboy-Brauestein
  S.D. New York· 2006-11-09· cited 104×
• Baloch v. Norton
  District of Columbia· 2007-09-25· cited 101×
• Sosa v. N.Y.C. Dep't of Educ. & Marcy Berger
  E.D. New York· 2019-03-25· cited 95×
• Na'im v. Clinton
  District of Columbia· 2009-06-19· cited 87×

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-11-09· cited 8,430×
• Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-26· cited 6,226×
• Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 5,248×
• Laura Holtz v. Rockefeller & Co., Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2001-07-10· cited 1,375×
• Simms v. Oklahoma Ex Rel. Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-01-25· cited 832×
• Yvette Cruz v. Coach Stores, Inc., David Otani, William Betts, Diane Lewis, Sara Lee Corporation, and Herve Heriveaux
  Second Circuit· 2000-01-20· cited 804×
• Cynthia A. Richardson v. New York State Department of Correctional Service, Auburn Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 1999-06-16· cited 692×
• Schwapp v. Town of Avon
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-02· cited 664×
• Stephanie J. QUINN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREEN TREE CREDIT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1998-11-05· cited 635×
• Madeline E. Brown v. William J. Henderson, Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service
  Second Circuit· 2001-07-24· cited 623×
• Robert F. Byrnie v. Town of Cromwell, Board of Education, Body Corporate Cromwell Board of Education Body Corporate
  Second Circuit· 2001-03-15· cited 599×
• Geneva Butts v. The City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development
  Second Circuit· 1993-03-24· cited 554×
• Red Mendoza v. Borden, Inc., D.B.A. Borden's Dairy
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-11-16· cited 512×
• Valerie A. Baskerville v. Culligan International Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-03-20· cited 505×
• Nancy Rojas v. State of Florida
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-03-22· cited 450×
• Perry v. Ethan Allen, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1997-06-02· cited 424×
• Thomas E. Bowman v. Shawnee State University Jessica J. Jahnke
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-07-17· cited 414×
• Ellen Howley v. Town of Stratford and William Holdsworth
  Second Circuit· 2000-06-23· cited 389×
• Martha Ellen Brennan v. Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc., David Kneuss, Joseph Volpe
  Second Circuit· 1999-09-21· cited 364×
• Pamela Kotcher and Barbara Davis, Pamela Kotcher v. Rosa and Sullivan Appliance Center, Inc., and Herbert Trageser
  Second Circuit· 1992-02-24· cited 353×