Byers v. Dallas Morning News, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “the ‘participation clause’ is irrelevant” where the plaintiff “did not file a charge with the EEOC until after the alleged retaliatory discharge took place”
• holding that an employer = s decision to terminate an individual = s employment based on race is a violation of Title VII, regardless of whether that person is white or black
• stating that the plaintiff’s argument “incorrectly expands [Nieto’s] holding into a presumption that replacement by someone within one’s protected class is irrelevant.”
• holding, on a review of summary judgment evidence, that a plaintiff employee’s belief of racial discrimination was objectively unreasonable
• noting that an employer’s decision to terminate an employee violates the statute “when that decision was based on race, whether that race be white or black.”
• noting that, to satisfy the opposition requirement, Plaintiff need only show that she had a “reasonabl[e] belief that the employer was engaged in unlawful employment practices”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).