USDA Worker Loses Appeal in Race, Sex, National Origin Bias Suit

The Department of Agriculture defeated a Hispanic female employee’s discrimination claims by showing some job actions she challenged weren’t sufficiently adverse, the Eighth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

A supervisor assigning her work four levels above her pay grade wasn’t enough under Muldrow v. City of St. Louis’s “some harm” standard for establishing adverse employment action, because the evidence didn’t show doing that work changed her job conditions, a unanimous panel said.

The supervisor allegedly taking credit for Ada Martinez-Medina’s work product fell short because there was no evidence that hurt Martinez-Medina’s chances for promotion, the US Court of Appeals for the ...