City of New Braunfels Jan Kotylo, in Her Official Capacity Pat Clifton, in His Official Capacity And Fritz Welsch, in His Official Capacity v. Joseph Tovar

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• recognizing that “smoking guns are hard to come by” in discrimination and unlawful retaliation cases
• holding that a “remedy only exists for retaliation when the evidence establishes that a materially adverse employment action resulted from the employee’s protected activities.”
• recognizing that quid pro quo harassment requires a showing that the “harasser demands sexual favors as a condition for granting employment or its benefits.”
• recognizing that the issue is “whether the employer’s perception of the [employee’s] problems--accurate or not--was the real reason for termination.”
• holding that the employee’s subjective belief that her harasser looked at her in a “creepy” manner and was “hitting on her” could not raise a fact issue
• recognizing that, as a “companion to its anti-discrimination provision, the TCHRA prohibits retaliation against an employee for engaging in certain protected 8 activities, such as reporting sexual harassment.”

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