Barton v. Zimmer, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that adverse employment actions generally fall into three categories: (1) termination; (2) transfers that reduce career prospects; and (3) unbearable changes in conditions
• noting that “termination” constitutes an “[a]dverse employment action[] for purposes of the federal antidiscrimination statutes”
• holding, in the context of an ADEA discrimination claim, that “[the Plaintiff] was not fired and his compensation was not reduced, so an award of back pay is unavailable”
• holding, in the context of an ADEA discrimination claim, that “[the Plaintiff] was not fired and his compensation was not reduced, so an award of back pay is unavailable”
• affirming summary judgment because no evidence existed to show that defendant’s action were taken “because Barton took medical leave”
• “Receiving a challenging work assignment typically is not sufficiently adverse to amount to a retaliatory adverse employment action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).