Bowie v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employee established prima facie case pf race, discrimination based on canceled job vacancy that was re-posted and then filled by white employee
• finding that “[w]hen a government agency cancels a vacancy announcement and no one outside the protected class is hired to fill the position, the plaintiff cannot establish her prima facie case”
• finding that the plaintiff could satisfy “the standard for an adverse action for failure to assign her to a lateral transfer because she ha[d] alleged, and [the] defendant concede[d], that this failure could affect her future promotional opportunities”
• “When a government agency cancels a vacancy announcement and no one outside the protected class is hired to fill the position, the plaintiff cannot establish [a] prima facie case . . . .” (citations omitted)
• “Since there were permissible inferences that could be drawn 28 1 from the expert witness’s testimony regarding the battered women’s syndrome, even if the 2 evidence had been improperly admitted, which it was not, its admission did not prevent a fair 3 trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).