Butler v. Obama

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the plaintiff’s “replacement by a white employee [would be] enough to get her past the prima facie stage”
• finding that plaintiff’s replacement by a white employer was insufficient evidence for a reasonable jury to find that defendants’ nondiscriminatory reason was pretextual
• analyzing discrimination claims under Title VII, the ADEA, and the NYSHRL together under the first step of the McDonnell Douglass burden-shifting framework, under which a plaintiff must establish a prima facie case of discrimination
• analyzing discrimination claims under Title VII, the ADEA, and the NYSHRL together under the first step of the McDonnell Douglass burden-shifting framework, under which a plaintiff must establish a prima facie case of discrimination
• granting summary judgment on Title VII and NYSHRL retaliation claims, despite temporal proximity between termination and protected activity, because “the termination was ultimately the product of an extensive period of progressive discipline” (quotation marks omitted)
• applying the same framework to Title VIJ and the NYSHRL claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).