Walker v. City of Holyoke

How courts have described this case

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

• conduct not protected in a retaliation context where no allegation is made about an employment practice prohibited by statute
• “[C]ourts that have dismissed discrimination claims at the prima facie stage based on unsatisfactory job performance have tended to do so where the employee’s poor record was undisputed or unrelated to the alleged discrimination.”
• “As the Ninth Circuit has convincingly explained, ‘[t]he most significant immediate measure an employer can take in response to a [harassment] complaint is to launch a prompt investigation to determine whether the complaint is justified.’” (alterations in original)
• applying same framework to Massachusetts discrimination law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).