Alexander v. Fulton County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that sheriff’s testimony that he \would never assert\ that it was \okay to fire someone because of their race\ was sufficient to establish that he acted with the requisite mental state
• holding that where employer “failed to offer any legitimate non-discriminatory reason to explain why [one applicant] was promoted over [the plaintiff], a reasonable jury could attribute the [employer's] failure to promote [the plaintiff] to race”
• holding that “the law does not require that a ‘similarly situated’ individual be one that has ‘engaged in the same or nearly identical conduct’ as the disciplined plaintiff. Instead, the law only requires ‘similar’ misconduct from the similarly situated comparator”
• stating that “it is not the court’s role to second-guess the wisdom of an employer’s decisions as long as the decisions are not racially 10 motivated”
• holding, in Title VII race discrimination case, “it is not the court’s role to second-guess the wisdom of an employer’s decisions as long as the decisions are not racially motivated.”
• noting that courts do not question the wisdom of an employer's decision

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