Bernard Mlynczak, Thomas J. Balamut, Jurgis Paliulionis, and John D. Kasprowicz v. Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

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• concluding that plaintiff’s subjective impression of employer’s comment did not raise genuine factual dispute
• holding that a manager did not show reverse discrimination, although he was evaluated on achieving diversity goals, among 11 other unrelated factors, because the diversity program included a wide variety of programs unrelated to the contested hiring decisions
• referring to title VII 11 as the “exclusive judicial remedy for claims of discrimination in [F]ederal employment”
• evidence that a decisionmaker generally favored hiring minorities does not prove under the direct method that any particular decision he made was for discriminatory reasons
• negative performance appraisals combined with conflict with supervisor and shunning by co-workers not adverse action
• “if the subjective beliefs of plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases could, by themselves, create genuine issues of material fact, then virtually all defense motions for summary judgment in such cases would be doomed.”

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