Carney v. City and County of Denver

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• expressing concern for whether “the statistical disparities [the plaintiff] cites are statistically significant,” and concluding “the record provides no basis on which a rational fact finder could conclude” the plaintiff had proven her discrimination claim
• rejecting Plaintiff’s Monell discrimination claim based on statistical evidence because of issues with the data and a lack of analysis that did not clearly eliminate nondiscriminatory explanations for the disparity
• including adverse employment action as element of prima facie case “[i]n racial discrimination suits . . . brought under . . . Title VII” (quoting Baca v. Sklar, 398 F.3d 1210, 1218 n.3 (10th Cir. 2005))
• a plaintiff must show sufficiently similar incidents “suggesting that similarly situated individuals were mistreated by the municipality in a similar way”
• section 1981 claim for employment discrimination based on race involves the same analysis as those brought under Title VII
• section 1981 claim for employment discrimination based on race involves the same analysis as those brought under Title VII

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