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Fourth Circuit Uses Prior Comments by Non-Decisionmaker to Reverse Dismissal of Discrimination Claim

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When litigating employment discrimination claims, plaintiffs frequently base their allegations on alleged disparaging comments made by a member of the company’s management. When that manager was the one who made a decision...more

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Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of ADEA Claim Lacking Evidence of Age-Bias

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On March 11, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment, dismissing a Texas city employee’s claim that he had been unlawfully terminated from his job because of his age. The Fifth...more

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Second Circuit Rules Against Plaintiff in AutoZone Case and Allows Nixing of her Deposition

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In affirming summary judgment in favor of AutoZone, the Second Circuit rules that a sales associate did not provide enough evidence to satisfy her burden of proof for sex discrimination, retaliation and...more

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Federal Court Rules That Employer Is Not Entitled To EEOC’s Pre-Suit Materials

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Seyfarth Synopsis: After a federal magistrate judge in California ordered the EEOC to provide written discovery responses relative to the substance its pre-suit investigation of a sex discrimination charge in EEOC v. Chipotle...more

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Sex + Discrimination = Liability, Says First Circuit

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In Franchina v. City of Providence, 2018 WL 550511, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 1919 (1st Cir., Jan. 25, 2018), the First Circuit offered no sympathy to the City in its appeal of a jury award that found the City’s fire department...more

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