Fairbrother v. Morrison

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• finding that a “jury could reasonably find such severe or pervasive workplace hostility” when for “a period of several months, [the plaintiff] was called ‘bitch’ almost daily, and called ‘whore’ ten to fifteen times”
• collecting cases and concluding that an “unsatisfactory” evaluation with no negative impact on compensation, benefits, or title was not an adverse employment action
• collecting cases and concluding that an “unsatisfactory” evaluation with no negative impact on compensation, benefits, or title was not an adverse employment action
• surveying cases and concluding that a negative performance evaluation cannot be considered an adverse employment action without evidence that the evaluation ʺaltered . . . compensation, benefits, or job titleʺ
• collecting cases and holding that a negative performance evaluation and written memo are not adverse employment actions without evidence that they “altered . . . compensation, benefits, or job title”
• coworkers repeatedly showed plaintiff pornography and solicited her opinion of same, posted explicit jokes on bulletin board, talked about their sex lives, and called plaintiff a “bitch” and a “whore”

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