Sally Higgins v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States of America

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• stating that “a job reassignment involving no corresponding reduction in salary, benefits, or prestige is insufficient to establish an adverse employment action.”
• noting that “[m]inor changes in duties or working conditions, even unpalatable or unwelcome ones, which cause no materially significant disadvantage” are not material changes
• determining that the failure to give timely performance reviews was not an adverse employment action
• finding a pattern of “harsh and unprofessional” treatment, including transfer to a new office with an unwilling supervisor and formal complaints against the employee, did not rise to adverse employment action because there was no material employment disadvantage
• “[Plaintiff] cannot make her claim based on personality conflicts, bad manners, or petty slights and snubs.”
• “Minor changes in duties or working conditions, even unpalatable or unwelcome ones, which cause no materially significant disadvantage do not satisfy the [materially adverse] prong.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).