Christopher Zamora v. City of Houston

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• joining the 6th, 8th, and 10th circuits in holding that cat’s paw may be applied in Title VII cases even under the more stringent “but for” causation standard of Nassar
• “Under [the cat’s paw] theory, a plaintiff must establish that the person with a retaliatory motive somehow influenced the decisionmaker to take the retaliatory action.”
• a plaintiff can establish causation under “cat’s paw” theory of liability by showing 11/16 the person without knowledge of the protected activity was affected by someone with knowledge
• noting the “cat’s paw theory of causation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).