Caldwell v. ServiceMaster Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a supervisor’s remarks to an African-American employee — calling her “girl,” “gal,” “rascal,” and “you people” — were “race-related” but lacking the “racial animus that is so severe and pervasive as to create a hostile environment”
• finding that to prevail on a theory of joint employer liability, a plaintiff must show that the temporary agency knew or should have known of the discriminatory conduct of the onsite employer and failed to take corrective measures within its control
• finding that to prevail on a theory of joint employer liability, a plaintiff must show that the temporary agency knew or should have known of the discriminatory conduct of the onsite employer and failed to take corrective measures within its control
• plaintiffs vague statements to employment agency that “something funny was going on” were insufficient to provide notice to agency of discriminatory conduct by employer
• the words “gal” and “girl” were not reasonably construed by the plaintiffs as sexually demeaning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).