Cozzi v. County of Marin

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that in 9 National Education Association of Alaska “[t]he Ninth Circuit found that the supervisor’s 10 behavior, while not on its face sex-or gender-related, nonetheless met the ‘severe and pervasive’ 11 test for the case to survive summary judgment.”
• finding that 10 “the comment about wanting ‘fresh faces’ does not lead to the inescapable conclusion that [the 11 defendant] wanted younger faces” before granting motion for summary judgment in favor of the 12 defendants on the plaintiff’s FEHA age-discrimination claim
• warnings and performance improvement plans are not adverse actions where they do not materially affect the terms and conditions of employment
• granting summary judgment on plaintiff’s failure to prevent harassment and 12 discrimination claim where plaintiff “has established no viable claim of discrimination or 13 harassment.”
• “The ‘severe or pervasive’ standard excludes occasional, sporadic, isolated, or trivial incidents of verbal abuse.”
• “[N]o suit may be maintained for violation of this affirmative duty [to prevent discrimination and harassment] if the plaintiff has not actually suffered any employment discrimination or harassment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).