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· 6/26/1996

Michael N. Williams v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Citations

  • 85 F.3d 270
  • 1996 WL 280786

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  • explaining that unless Title VII excluded peripheral slights “every trivial personnel action that an irritated employee did not like would form the basis of a discrimination suit”
  • transfer of pharmaceutical salesman from one division to another was not an adverse action even though it was likely to, and did, initially reduce the commission portion of his earnings

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Judges: Posner, Cummings, Coffey

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