Solvita McMillan v. Ida Castro, Chairwoman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that it may sometimes be appropriate to consider if the employees dealt with the same ultimate decision-maker, rather than the same supervisor
• noting that remarks critical of both parties outside the presence of the jury in response to counsel’s conduct are eligible for harmless error review
• noting that it is often inappropriate to compare employees who are not subject to the same ultimate decision-maker
• finding that instructions similar to the ones issued in this case were a factor in the court’s conclusion that limited intrusions by the district court did not warrant reversal
• stating that reviewing courts must consider “whether, with reference to a range of acceptable, though not necessarily model, judicial behavior, the [judge]’s conduct falls demonstrably outside this range so as to constitute hostility or bias.”
• finding a plaintiff similarly situated to a non-protected employee despite the two individuals being in two different departments and having different supervisors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).