Spees v. James Marine, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an “inconvenience resulting from a less favorable schedule can render an employment action ‘adverse’ even if the employee’s responsibilities and wages are left unchanged”
• holding that a reasonable jury could find an adverse employment action where an employee was transferred to a position that, among other things, required less training and was less challenging
• concluding that an employer regarded a pregnant employee who had experienced complications during prior pregnancies as disabled because the employer expressed concern about her working and directed her to obtain a doctor’s note limiting her to light duty work
• noting that if an employee ‘‘believed the change was necessary in order to keep her job,” then the employee could recover in light of á requested transfer
• finding that viewing a transfer as a “demotion” could result in a “reasonable jury” concluding an adverse employment action occurred
• plaintiff gave adequate notice of mixed-motive claim by alleging pregnancy was a motivating factor and specifying she was bringing mixed-motive claims in a footnote in her motion for summary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).