Vera v. McHugh

How courts have described this case

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• stating that courts should apply these doctrines “sparingly”
• “[t]iming may bear on the question of causation in a retaliation claim, but . . . a ‘narrow focus [on timing may] ignore [ ] the larger sequence of events and also the larger truth’”
• “[C]onduct that forces an employee to abandon his or her own office during the workday could reasonably be seen as interfering with that employee’s work performance.”
• “Although Rodríguez did not overtly threaten Vera, the allegation that he blocked her from leaving the office on at least one occasion suggests a physically threatening environment.”
• supervisor and plaintiff shared a small office for approximately three months where he would sit staring at her and move his chair close so that their legs would touch
• “it is one thing to say that employees must learn to tolerate simple teasing, offhand comments, and isolated incidents (unless extremely serious). . . . It is quite another to require employees to suffer the constant attentions of a lascivious supervisor.”

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