Nichols v. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

How courts have described this case

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• adverse action must be “more disruptive than a mere inconvenience or an alteration of job responsibilities”
• \stray remarks that are neither proximate nor related to the employment decision are insufficient to defeat summary judgment\
• “We have held . . . that stray remarks that are neither proximate nor related to the employment decision are insufficient to defeat summary judgment.”
• placement on paid administrative leave for three months was not an adverse employment action
• paid leave pending psychological examination after officer used force against mentally unstable woman
• “We agree with our sister circuits, and find that the [defendant's placement of [the plaintiff] on paid administrative leave pending the results of his fitness-for-duty psychological examinations did not constitute a materially adverse action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).