Continental Casualty Company v. Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “statements by decisionmakers unrelated to the decisional process are not direct evidence” (quoting Schaffhauser v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., 794 F.3d 899, 902 (8th Cir. 2015))
• finding an issue waived where plaintiff mentioned it only in passing and did not include the issue in the statement of issues
• finding an issue waived under Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure when appellant failed to include the issue in the statement of issues and discussed it only briefly in the briefing
• finding a single incident was not severe enough to alter the conditions of employment
• “Under Title VII, a hostile work environment claim is a type of discrimination claim under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a).”
• applying Ramlet’s direct-evidence reasoning to a Title VII retaliation case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).