Tracy Williams v. City of Kansas City, Mo, Tracy Williams v. City of Kansas City, Mo

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• noting an “[a]dverse employment action is exhibited by a material employment disadvantage, such as a decrease in salary, benefits or responsibilities”
• finding the plaintiff did not give the city an opportunity to address her concerns, and therefore, the Court could not say resignation was the plaintiff’s only plausible alternative
• supervisor’s “silent treatment is at most ostracism, which does not rise to the level of an actionable adverse employment action”
• “Evidentiary errors affect a party’s substantial rights when the cumulative effect of the errors is to substantially influence the jury’s verdict.”
• “[The coworker’s] silent treatment is at most ostracism, which does not rise to the level of an actionable adverse employment action.”
• “[W]e cannot say that Williams[’s] only plausible alternative was to resign.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).