Brown v. CSC Logic, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that discriminatory remarks count as direct evidence only if, among other things, they relate to the challenged employment decision
• concluding that “the facts in this particular case are not sufficiently egregious to overcome the [“same actor”] inference that [the defendant’s] stated reason for discharging [the plaintiff] was not pretext for age discrimination”
• stating that supervisor's isolated, remote in time, derogatory statement is not compelling evidence of discrimination
• stating that supervisor's isolated, remote in time, derogatory statement is not compelling evidence of discrimination
• inferring no age discrimination as the motive behind termination because the “same actor” responsible for hiring and firing was older that the plaintiff
• approving “same actor” inference that same actor’s involvement in both employee’s hiring and termination raises inference against discriminatory motive.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Laxton v. Gap Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-06-06· cited 644×
• Waterhouse v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 2002-08-13· cited 605×
• Russell v. McKinney Hosp. Venture
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-12-06· cited 444×
• Veronica A. Wallace v. The Methodist Hospital System
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-11-07· cited 412×
• Kenneth D. Sandstad v. Cb Richard Ellis, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-10-28· cited 392×
• Medina v. Ramsey Steel Co Inc
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-01-31· cited 365×
• James W. Coghlan v. American Seafoods Company LLC
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-07-07· cited 288×
• Rubinstein v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-07-06· cited 261×
• Debra Jean SHEPHERD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF the STATE of TEXAS, Defendant-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-16· cited 261×
• Johnson v. Zema Systems Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-03-16· cited 250×
• MacHinchick v. PB Power, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-01-24· cited 246×
• Siegfried Herrnreiter v. Chicago Housing Authority
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-12-30· cited 227×
• Ronald Reed v. Neopost USA, Incorporated
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-11-13· cited 221×
• Auguster v. Vermilion Parish School Board
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-05-03· cited 217×
• Maurice Goudeau v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-07-16· cited 194×
• Hill v. BCTI Income Fund-I
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-05-17· cited 176×
• Antonio v. Sygma Network, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-08-16· cited 157×
• Haire v. Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-05-21· cited 141×
• Horn v. Cushman & Wakefield Western, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1999-05-06· cited 138×
• Shoppe v. Gucci America, Inc.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2000-12-28· cited 135×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 15,585×
• Theodore L. Leblanc v. Great American Insurance Company
  First Circuit· 1993-09-29· cited 922×
• Bodenheimer v. PPG Industries, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-11-03· cited 525×
• Warren A. PROUD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael P.W. STONE, Secretary of the Army, Defendant-Appellee
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-09-23· cited 350×
• Calvin Rhodes v. Guiberson Oil Tools
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-01-31· cited 349×
• Maud Lee THORNBROUGH, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COLUMBUS AND GREENVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-05-17· cited 326×
• Richard L. Conkling v. Bert S. Turner
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-06-13· cited 265×
• Hiram AMBURGEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CORHART REFRACTORIES CORPORATION, INC., Defendant-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-07-26· cited 237×
• Williams v. General Motors Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-09-14· cited 205×
• Reed L. Guthrie v. Tifco Industries
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-10-21· cited 204×
• Mid-South Grizzlies v. National Football League
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-29· cited 204×
• Joseph L. RAND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CF INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED, and Robert C. Liuzzi, Defendants-Appellees
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-12-23· cited 191×
• James R. LOWE, Appellant, v. J.B. HUNT TRANSPORT, INC., Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1992-04-28· cited 173×
• Mary E. Buhrmaster v. Overnite Transportation Company
  Sixth Circuit· 1995-08-02· cited 127×
• Santa Fe Pacific Realty Corp. v. City of Berkeley
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-05· cited 55×
• Fowler v. Carrollton Public Library
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-09-12· cited 44×
• Glenn Uffelman v. Lone Star Steel Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-01-20· cited 43×
• Turner v. North American Rubber, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-12-09· cited 38×
• Henry J. LAURENCE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CHEVRON, U.S.A., INC., Defendant-Appellant
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-10-10· cited 27×
• McIntyre v. Hatcher
  Supreme Court· 1996-01-16· cited 21×