Williams v. Giant Food Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a complaint alleging a violation of Section 1981 in Maryland must be brought within three years of the alleged misconduct
• holding that a plaintiff’s “self-serving opinion” cannot defeat summary judgment, but crediting plaintiff’s testimony as to the underlying facts of the case
• holding that self-serving testimony “cannot, absent objective corroboration, defeat summary judgment”
• stating that when an employer fails to make employees aware of vacancies, the employee may be treated as having actually applied for a specific position for purposes of a discrimination claim
• holding that plaintiff failed to state a claim for constructive discharge by alleging that her “supervisors yelled at her, told her she was a poor manager and gave her poor evaluations, chastised her in front of customers, and once required her to work with an injured back”
• noting that, in certain situations, “the application requirement may be relaxed and the employee treated as if []he had actually applied for a specific position” if an employer “fails to make its employees aware of vacancies[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).