Patricia Brooks v. Susan Grundmann

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a single incident, where a supervisor “yelled' at [the plaintiff] and violently threw a book (thick notebook) on a table
• concluding that performance reviews that “recommended areas of improvement” were “hardly the stuff of severe or pervasive workplace hostility”
• holding that supervisors did not subject plaintiff to a hostile work environment when they “raised their voices during meetings” and “threw a notebook in her direction”
• holding that the “ordinary tribulations of the workplace, [i.e.,] a series of petty insults, vindictive behavior, and angry recriminations . . . are not actionable under Title VII” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• noting that the court must assess the timeline of events as a whole to determine whether the conduct was sufficiently severe or pervasive
• noting that performance reviews with “some legitimate bases” that “recommended areas of improvement” were not “the stuff of severe or pervasive workplace hostility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).