Elam v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF DC

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[t]he elements of a DCHRA hostile work environment claim mirror the federal requirements”
• collecting cases to. show that “[t]he Supreme Court has cautioned that courts should be especially solicitous of academic decisions in the higher education setting”
• comparing academic and professional credentials, as well as disciplinary focus, of possible comparators who worked at a university
• “[A]nti-discrimination laws do not prohibit all workplace harassment, only harassment motivated by a discriminatory criterion.”
• “The elements of a hostile work environment claim under the DCHRA mirror the federal requirements.” (citing Lively v. Flexible Packaging Assoc., 830 A.2d 874, 889 (D.C. 2003))
• no violation of APA where discovery request was denied “on grounds of undue burden”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).