Ruben Cardoso v. Robert Bosch Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming grant of summary judgment on failure- to-promote claim where plaintiff “did not apply for” the job openings at issue, “and therefore could not have been rejected for promotion to either opening”
• “Because [plaintiffs supervisor] was not the decisionmaker in question, his statement will not suffice as direct evidence of discrimina tion____”
• “[T]he court is not a ‘super- personnel department’ intervening whenever an employee feels he is being treated unjustly.”
• Title VII does not empower the court to impose merit selection programs or to punish employers for business decisions alone
• “[T]he court is not a ‘super-personnel department’ intervening whenever an employee feels he is being treated unjustly.”
• “The aggrieved employee may seek recourse in federal court for discrimination only for the forbidden reasons set forth in Title VII, not for common workplace disputes or poor, nonsensical, or even heavy-handed management techniques or decisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).