Janet R. Kerns v. Capital Graphics, Inc., Doing Business as Clarinda Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a supervisor's criticism and threat that the complainant would be \fired for any subsequent exercise of poor judgment\ was not enough for an adverse employment action (emphasis added)
• holding that a supervisor’s criticism and threat that the plaintiff would be \fired for any subsequent exercise of poor judgment\ did not amount to an adverse employment action
• stating that in a sex discrimination case, direct evidence “might include proof of an admission that gender was the reason for an action”
• stripping of discretionary authority and moving office closer to supervisor not adverse employment actions
• “In addition to a prima facie case, McDonnell Douglas requires a plaintiff to show an employer’s legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for its action was pretextual.”
• “Kerns has not shown reason to doubt that Castiglioni’s disapproval of her work performance motivated the disciplinary steps he took,” and there was no other evidence of pretext

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).