Rattigan v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a supervisor’s threat- — “If I catch you doing something ... I promise you I’ll cut your balls off’— did not cultivate a hostile work environment
• holding that comments made outside the plaintiff's presence did not give rise to an actionable hostile work environment
• holding that comments made outside the plaintiff’s presence did not give rise to an actionable hostile work environment
• holding that comments made outside the plaintiff’s presence about “cutting his balls off,” suggesting that he was “disloyal,” and threatening a demotion did not constitute a hostile work environment
• concluding that the plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies for his retaliation claim, which was not “within the scope of ‘the administrative investigation that [could] reasonably be expected to follow’” his charge
• concluding that a supervisor’s threat - - “If I catch you doing something . . . I promise you I’ll cut your balls off” - - was not enough to satisfy a hostile working environment standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).