Guimaraes v. SuperValu, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “neutral statements, without more, do not demonstrate animus on the part of the speaker”
• dismissing retaliation claims in part because plaintiff could not correlate the employer’s failure to follow its personnel policies with evidence of retaliation
• “Federal courts do not sit as super-personnel departments reviewing the wisdom or fairness of the business judgments made by employers.”
• “[R]acially charged code words may provide evidence of discriminatory intent by sending a clear message and carrying the distinct tone of racial motivations and implications.”
• “For a report of discrimination to be statutorily protected activity under Title VII, it must include a complaint of [race or] national-origin discrimination or sufficient facts to raise that inference.”
• Title VII does not make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of citizenship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).