Burkes v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that allegations of repeated exposure “to racist and offensive symbols over a period of time” were sufficient to state a claim
• holding plaintiff did not exhaust claim where agency properly denied leave to amend to add it
• holding plaintiff did not exhaust claim where agency properly denied leave to amend to add it
• finding failure to exhaust where agency did not accept attempted amendment and plaintiff did not challenge this determination
• single display of monkey hanging by a noose was sufficient to state a claim for a racially hostile work environment
• denying a 14 motion to dismiss a race-based hostile work environment claim where an employee witnessed a stuffed monkey hanging by its neck in a public work area

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Craig v. Metropolitan Police Department
  District of Columbia· 2014-11-24· cited 33×
• Bartlette v. Hyatt Regency
  District of Columbia· 2016-09-25· cited 21×
• Dick v. Holder
  District of Columbia· 2015-02-19· cited 19×
• Toomer v. Panetta
  District of Columbia· 2017-07-19· cited 15×
• Jones v. Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2013-11-21· cited 12×
• Briscoe v. Kerry
  District of Columbia· 2015-07-02· cited 7×
• Redding v. Mattis
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-08-29· cited 7×
• Morris v. U.S. Dep't of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-03-27· cited 3×
• Lenkiewicz v. Donovan
  District of Columbia· 2015-11-20· cited 2×
• Nichols v. Vilsack
  District of Columbia· 2015-12-30
• Morris v. U.S. Department of Justice
  District of Columbia· 2018-03-27
• Redding v. Carter
  District of Columbia· 2018-08-29
• Toomer v. Panetta
  District of Columbia· 2020-05-26
• Gonzalez v. Garland
  District of Columbia· 2023-09-21
• Jackson v. Mayorkas
  District of Columbia· 2024-09-27
• Holmes v. Austin, III
  District of Columbia· 2024-09-30
• Ellis v. Mayorkas
  District of Columbia· 2025-09-25

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-11-09· cited 8,430×
• National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-10· cited 6,600×
• Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-26· cited 6,226×
• Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-24· cited 2,939×
• Charles Kowal v. MCI Communications Corporation
  D.C. Circuit· 1994-03-01· cited 1,980×
• Dolly Kyle Browning and Direct Outstanding Creations Corporation v. William Jefferson Clinton
  D.C. Circuit· 2002-08-01· cited 1,521×
• Baloch v. Kempthorne
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-12-30· cited 1,027×
• Soon Y. Park v. Howard University
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-02-12· cited 558×
• Gustave-Schmidt v. Chao
  District of Columbia· 2002-09-30· cited 463×
• Reginald Jones v. UPS Group Freight
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-06-11· cited 443×
• Gary Hamilton v. Timothy Geithner
  D.C. Circuit· 2012-01-17· cited 438×
• Taylor, Carolyn v. Small, Lawrence M.
  D.C. Circuit· 2003-12-12· cited 422×
• Stewart, Sonya v. Evans, Donald L.
  D.C. Circuit· 2002-01-11· cited 363×
• James E. Rodgers v. Western-Southern Life Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-12-17· cited 323×
• Magloire Etoh v. Fannie Mae
  D.C. Circuit· 2013-04-05· cited 286×
• William L. Mondy v. Secretary of the Army
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-04-26· cited 258×
• Weber v. Battista
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-07-17· cited 234×
• Hussain, Mohammed v. Nicholson, R. James
  D.C. Circuit· 2006-01-31· cited 224×