Benuzzi v. Board of Educ. of City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that court of appeals defers to district court’s understanding of its own local rules
• “Filing charges with the EEOC and pursuing a lawsuit in an attempt to vindicate those charges are the most obvious forms of statutorily protected activity.”
• denying summary judgment where an incredibly short span of time separated plaintiffs filing of an EEOC complaint and her suspension and no intervening events might reasonably have justified the reprimands
• “District courts have broad discretion to enforce and require strict compliance with their local rules.”
• “two-month time frame separating [plaintiff’s] first amended EEOC complaint and her second suspension is, without more, insufficient to give rise to” an inference of discrimination
• “an empty threat that quickly dissipates before the employee becomes aware of it does not constitute a materially adverse action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).