Pedro Tamayo v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• describing “the right question” regarding whether an employer is liable for an independent contractor’s harassment is “whether the [employer] intentionally created or tolerated unequal working conditions”
• “dark hints of future adverse employment action” were not themselves adverse employment actions for Title VII retaliation purposes
• employers may be liable for refusal to do anything about the discrimination of non-employees, such as independent contractors
• “[T]he plaintiff bears the burden of showing that the employer knew of the problem (usually though not always this requires the employee to show that a complaint was made) (Continued
• in Title VII case, “[a]bility to ‘control’ the actor plays no role.”
• “Talk is cheap; unless Dunn knew that Coy had sabotaged the career of other nurses, his statements would not have dissuaded reasona‐ ble persons from protecting their own rights under the statute and thus cannot violate Title VII.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).