James Bennington v. Caterpillar Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• noting that work environment must be objectively and subjectively hostile and abusive to support claim of harassment
• affirming summary judgment where there was “scant evidence that [the defendant] intended to inflict distress upon [the plaintiff]”
• rejecting an age-based hostile work environment claim and noting that rude or unfair behavior alone does not constitute “legally redressible discrimination”
• finding in an ADEA hostile work environment claim that defendant’s behavior, even if rude or unfair, did not “rise to the level of legally redressible discrimination.”
• no evidence that supervisors’ “rude or unfair” conduct was discriminatory
• five year age differ- ence is not significant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).