Brenda O'Neal v. City of Chicago and Jerry Robinson

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting for lack of “objective evidence” the employee’s claims that her involuntary transfer resulted in a less prestigious job and negatively affected her advancement opportunities
• describing as adverse “a nominally lateral transfer” which “significantly reduces the employee’s career prospects by preventing her from using her skills and experience” (emphasis added)
• requiring plaintiff to perform tasks that are well within the reasonable scope of plaintiff’s work duties does not constitute an adverse employment action
• rejecting plaintiff's argument that employer's transfer denial negatively impacted employment prospects due to lack of evidence
• listing types of “adverse employment actions” that can give rise to a Title VII violation
• denial of an employee’s “purely subjective preference” is not an adverse employment action (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).