Cooper v. Jackson-Madison County General Hospital District

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a charge of discrimination on the basis of one protected class, like sex, “is not the type that would be expected to reasonably grow out of” a charge of discrimination on the basis of a different protected class, like race
• explaining that a charge of discrimination on the basis of one protected class, like sex, “is not the type that would be expected to reasonably grow out of” a charge of discrimination on the basis of a different protected class, like race
• “Even though race and 24 color clearly overlap, they are not synonymous.” (quoting EEOC Compliance Manual, § 25 15-III (Apr. 19, 2006)
• failure to check appropriate boxes resulted in non-exhausted remedy, and color based discrimination did not reasonably grow out of race based discrimination
• “Plaintiff alleged that he ‘was discriminated against ... because of [his] race, White.’ ”
• where the plaintiff could only remember one specific instance of a racial remark, the court found that not sufficient to support his “conclusory assertions” that his supervisor referred to him as “whitey” or “white boy” every time he visited the Brownsville facility

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