Smith v. Alabama Dept. of Public Safety

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a lateral transfer is not an adverse employment action “anytime an employee [is] displeased with his or her transfer”
• holding that the reason for transferring plaintiff from one city to another had not been shown as pretextual when the decision was “the result of a well-documented departmental reorganization.”
• finding that “embarrassment” or a “bruised ego” from a transfer does not constitute adverse employment action
• finding that Title VII plaintiff could not establish adverse employment action, because he suffered no loss in pay, benefits, or classification, only great embarrassment
• finding that Title VII plaintiff could not establish adverse employment action, because he suffered no loss in pay, benefits, or classification, only great embarrassment
• involuntary lateral reassignment from Selma to Montgomery did not constitute adverse employment action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).