Holcomb, Christine v. Powell, Donald

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “by filing a formal complaint of discrimination . . . [a plaintiff] engage[s] in protected activity.”
• concluding that the employer’s decision to hire the “best applicant” for a position was a legitimate reason
• concluding that employer presented a legitimate, nondiscriminatory 9 explanation after pointing to specific evaluation criteria
• concluding that the mere filing of third-party discrimination complaints against the decision-maker cannot be used to establish discriminatory animus “where nothing more is known about the nature, merit, or outcome of those complaints”
• concluding that jury could find adversity from reassignment with \significantly different responsibilities\
• concluding that jury could find adversity from reassignment with “significantly different responsibilities”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).