Richard D. Peterson v. Hewlett-Packard Co., a Corporation

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• holding that plaintiffs can meet their burden by showing that “similarly situated individuals 6 outside [their] protected class were treated more favorably” than they
• holding that it was not religious discrimination for a company to terminate an employee for placing anti-gay messages in his cubicle that \demean[ed] and harass[ed] his co-workers\
• holding that employer’s duty to accommodate an employee’s religious belief did not extend to accommodations that would result in discrimination or related harms against the employee’s co-workers
• holding that employers “need not accept the burdens that would result from allowing actions that demean or degrade, or are designed to demean or degrade, members of its workforce”
• explaining that the plaintiff alleging discrimination has the burden of showing that he experienced an adverse employment action
• holding 2 an employer need not accommodate discriminatory actions “that demean or 3 degrade . . . members of its workforce”

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