Congress Cigar Co. v. Hering

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Congress did not intend individuals to face liability under Title VII
• interpreting the phrase “any agent of such a person” in the definition of “employer” in Title VII as incorporating respondeat superior liability not as making individual supervisors personally liable
• “[A]n individual employee/supervisor who does not otherwise qualify as an ‘employer,’ may not be held personally liable under Title VII.”
• discussing Title VII’s “employer” requirement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).