Joella K. Wyninger v. New Venture Gear, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the employer was not liable under Title VII in part because it “conducted a prompt, thorough investigation into the incidents” reported by the plaintiff
• recognizing that an employee’s acceptable performance for most of a period of employment “does nothing to rebut” an employer’s contention that a specific aspect of the employee’s performance warranted termination
• stating that an employer’s response need only be reasonable under the circumstances, and courts “are not to focus solely upon whether the remedial activity ultimately succeeded”
• requiring plaintiff to show that employer \failed to take reasonable steps to remedy the harassment once it was on notice.\
• “[I]t is clear that mere temporal proximity is not enough to establish a genuine issue of material fact.”
• “ ‘mere temporal proximity’ is not enough to establish a genuine issue of material fact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).