Aretha Tucker v. Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees

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 plaintiff may not raise a new claim at the summary judgment stage
• recognizing that the defendant would otherwise be subject to unfair surprise
• noting that permitting the plaintiff to raise a new claim in response to a summary judgment motion “would subject defendants to an unfair surprise”
• holding a plaintiff may not defeat summary judgment by asserting claims which have never been pled
• noting that a plaintiff may not succeed at the summary judgment stage by relying on claims not pled in the complaint
• explaining that the liberal standards that apply at the pleading stage do not apply “[o]nce a case has progressed to the summary judgment stage”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).