Helen L. Russell v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Chicago

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[w]hen harassing statements are directed at someone other than the plaintiff, the impact of such second hand harass- ment is obviously not as great as the impact of harassment directed at the plaintiff.”
• reasoning that summary judgment “is a singularly inappropriate time to resolve” a “he said, she said” dispute
• noting that the impact of \'second hand harassment' is obviously not as great as the impact of harassment directed at the plaintiff\
• noting that “[w]hen harassing statements are directed at someone other than the plaintiff, the impact of such second hand harass- ment is obviously not as great as the impact of harassment directed at the plaintiff.”
• finding insufficient evidence to sustain a hostile environment claim, where most of the offensive comments were directed at plaintiffs co-workers and the few comments directed at plaintiff were minor
• demeaning comments in sex discrimination case, though “hardly admirable,” did not meet the hostile work environment standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).