Kathy Durkin v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the plaintiff employee’s informal complaints did not constitute protected activity until she complained through the formal channels of the city’s complaint mechanism
• holding that plaintiff was required to report harassment even though she believed that it would be futile
• holding that events that predate the statutorily protected activities cannot be retaliatory
• explaining in a Title VII case that it “is axiomatic that a plaintiff engage in statutorily protected activity before an employer can retaliate against her for engaging in statutorily protected activity.”
• finding the failure to train analysis inapposite where plaintiff received training
• “It is axiomatic that a plaintiff engage in statutorily protected activity before an employer can retaliate against her for engaging in statutorily protected activity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).