Barrett v. Salt Lake County

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the McDonnell Douglas framework “serves only a narrow function,” does not create “a pleading requirement,” and applies “predominantly at summary judgment”
• explaining McDonnell Douglas applies “predominantly at summary judgment . . . to cases relying on indirect proof of discrimination”
• rejecting challenge to jury instruction that “rest[s] on an implicit assumption [that] the jury lied”
• noting McDonnell Douglas’s limited applicability is at summary judgment for claims relying on indirect proof of discrimination
• “[A]s things have evolved, McDonnell Douglas has come to apply predominantly at summary judgment and there only to cases relying on indirect proof of discrimination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).