524 U.S. 742 (1998) Cited 7,252 times 93 Legal Analyses
Holding that an employer is not liable for a hostile work environment created by one of its employees when "the employer exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any sexually harassing behavior, and . . . the plaintiff employee unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities provided by the employer or to avoid harm otherwise"
553 U.S. 474 (2008) Cited 308 times 8 Legal Analyses
Holding that "the statutory phrase 'discrimination based on age' " in § 633a "includes retaliation based on the filing of an age discrimination complaint"
Holding that a plaintiff may prove discrimination through evidence of "ambiguous statements, suspicious timing, discrimination against other employees, and other pieces of evidence none conclusive in itself but together composing a convincing mosaic of discrimination"
Holding that although a clear line of demarcation has never been established, “[i]t appears clear that, if the adverse action occurs in a brief period up to one and a half months after the protected activity, temporal proximity alone will be sufficient to establish the requisite causal inference.”
Holding that a supervisor's age-based prejudice tainted a committee's decision to fire the plaintiff because the supervisor's portrayal of the plaintiff to the committee in the worst possible light "may well have been decisive" in light of the fact that the committee's deliberations were "brief, perhaps perfunctory" and none of the committee members could remember having considered the issue of the plaintiffs termination