Bell v. Gonzales

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• holding that the sporadic use of abusive language is insufficient to establish a hostile work environment
• holding that “sporadic use of abusive language” and “[o]ccasional instances of less favorable treatment” were insufficient to establish a hostile work environment
• holding that “missed opportunities for teaching, travel, and high-profile assignments” and “reassignment to the Field Support Subunit” lacked the “severity that is required to establish a hostile work environment”
• holding that “[i]nitiation of EEO counseling to explore whether an employee has a basis for alleging discrimination constitutes protected activity, even in the absence of an unequivocal allegation of discrimination”
• holding that workplace decisions like “exclusion from the informal chain of command, close monitoring of [plaintiff’s] work, missed opportunities for teaching, travel, and high-profile assignments” did not create a hostile work environment
• holding that work-related actions such as “exclusion from the informal chain of command, close monitoring of [ ] work, missed opportunities for teaching, travel, and high-profile assignments, and [ ] reassignment” lacked severity for hostile work environment claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).