Centola v. Potter

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that plaintiffs coworkers must have surmised that the plaintiff was gay because they found him to be effeminate
• noting that gender stereotypes are measured by “what most people in our society would consider to be [] masculine.”
• denying summary judgment where co-workers “placed a picture of Richard Simmons ‘in pink hot pants’ in [plaintiffs] work area”
• observing that sexual orientation discrimination “is often, if not always, motivated by a desire to enforce heterosexually defined gender norms. In fact, stereotypes about homosexuality are directly related to our stereotypes about the proper roles of men and women. . . .”
• “the line between discrimination because of sexual orientation and discrimination because of sex is hardly clear.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).