Chaney v. Plainfield Healthcare Center

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that summary judgment was not appropriate because of the \unusual way\ in which the decision to terminate the plaintiff was reached
• holding that summary judgment was inappropriate as to the “severe or pervasive” prong where evidence showed that coworkers called the plaintiff “a black bitch” and the “n-word” on multiple occasions
• holding that summary judgment was inappropriate as to the “severe or pervasive” prong where evidence showed that coworkers called the plaintiff “a black bitch” and the “n-word” on multiple occasions
• recognizing that sex-based preferences are permissible to accommodate patients’ privacy interests in the health care setting and noting that “the law tolerates same-sex restrooms or same-sex dressing rooms … to accommodate privacy needs…”
• accepting that “the law tolerates same-sex restrooms or same-sex dressing rooms . . . to accommodate privacy needs”
• stating that the court looks “for a substantially similar employee, not for a clone”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).