Joyce Bickerstaff v. Vassar College

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that \the impermissible bias of a single individual at any stage of the promoting process may taint the ultimate employment decision in violation of Title VII\
• feelings and perceptions of isolation, hostility and discrimination are not evidence of discrimination
• “Statements that are devoid of any specifics, but replete with conclusions, are insufficient to defeat a... motion for summary judgment.”
• “Statements that are devoid of any specifics, but replete with conclusions, are insufficient to defeat a properly supported motion for summary judgment.”
• Title VII may be violated “even absent evidence of illegitimate bias on the part of the ultimate decision maker, so long as the individual shown to have the impermissible bias played a meaningful role” in the employment decision
• plaintiff must provide “concrete particulars” to survive summary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).