Brown v. Children's National Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “a claim for individual liability under [s]ection 1981 requires an affirmative showing linking the individual defendant with the discriminatory action’” (quoting Page v. Winn–Dixie Montgomery, Inc., 702 F. Supp. 2d 1334, 1355 (S.D. Ala. 2010))
• dismissing plaintiffs DCHRA claims where plaintiffs claims were “neither brought within the one-year statute of limitations nor filed” with the EEOC or DCOHR
• applying D.C. law, and explaining “[t]hat plaintiff ‘was under a great deal of intentional pressure,’ . . . does not adequately allege that she suffered severe emotional distress.”
• refusing to recognize the public policy exception where the only violation was of “[a private employer’s] internal personnel policies regarding employee discipline, grievances, equal employment opportunity, harassment, and retaliation”
• requiring “an affirmative showing linking the individual defendant with the discriminatory action.”
• “An individual . . . may be held liable personally under the DCHRA if []he is acting on behalf of an employer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).