Bray v. RHT, INC.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a plaintiff cannot “merely invoke his race in the course of a claim’s narrative and automatically be entitled to pursue relief.”
• noting that a plaintiff “cannot merely invoke h[er] race in the course of a claim’s narrative and automatically be entitled to pursue relief”
• dismissing the plaintiffs intentional infliction of emotional distress claim, and calling it “frivolous” where the plaintiff was refused service and escorted from defendant’s establishment on one day, but the next day was served without issue
• plaintiff must allege some facts that “demonstrate that [her] race was the reason for defendant’s actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Darryl Morris and Leggitt Nailor v. Office Max, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-07-12· cited 235×
• Middlebrooks v. Godwin Corp.
  District of Columbia· 2010-06-25· cited 81×
• Alexander v. Washington Gas Light Co.
  District of Columbia· 2006-02-23· cited 38×
• Brown v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2003-03-11· cited 34×
• Mesumbe v. Howard University
  District of Columbia· 2010-04-19· cited 31×
• Hajjar-Nejad v. George Washington University
  District of Columbia· 2012-01-04· cited 27×
• Morris v. Carter Global Lee, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2013-11-05· cited 18×
• White v. Denny's Inc.
  D. Colorado· 1996-03-21· cited 16×
• Hodges v. Washington Tennis Service International, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1994-12-15· cited 12×
• Jackson v. Tyler's Dad's Place, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1994-04-21· cited 12×
• Wilson v. DNC Servs. Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-06-22· cited 10×
• Mekuria v. Bank of America
  District of Columbia· 2011-09-23· cited 9×
• Nanko Shipping, USA v. Alcoa, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2015-08-06· cited 8×
• Kungle v. Executive Officers, State Farm Insurance
  District of Columbia· 2014-06-16· cited 7×
• Carty v. CVS Pharmacy, LLC
  District of Columbia· 2017-09-11· cited 4×
• Jackson v. ABC LIQUORS
  M.D. Florida· 1997-09-10· cited 2×
• Ridley v. VMT Long Term Care Management, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2014-09-18· cited 2×
• Brown v. Children's National Medical Center
  District of Columbia· 2011-03-30
• Ndondji v. Interpark, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2011-03-09
• Amiri V.gelman Management Company
  District of Columbia· 2010-08-19

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-01· cited 15,427×
• United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-28· cited 13,852×
• Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-15· cited 2,518×
• Ayatollah Syed M. J. Iqbal Jafree v. John R. Barber, Acting Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-07-12· cited 140×
• The Network Project v. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a Corporation
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-07-22· cited 46×
• United States v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-08· cited 42×
• Westray v. Porthole, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 1984-05-22· cited 35×
• Jaffe v. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 1984-06-05· cited 19×
• Rowe v. Kidd
  District of Columbia· 1990-02-16· cited 5×