Covington v. International Ass'n of Approved Basketball Officials

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• finding that the plaintiff must allege an employment relationship with the defendants to state a Title VII claim
• explaining that “[i]n order to state a Title VII claim, [a plaintiff] must allege an employment relationship with the defendant[]” under the factors set out in Darden
• rejecting employee status where entity did not hire or pay plaintiff
• “In order to state a Title VII claim, [plaintiff] must allege an employment relationship with the defendants.”
• “In order to state a Title VII claim, Covington must allege an employment relationship with the defendants.”
• “The pleading standard ‘is not akin to a ‘probability requirement’’” rather, “to survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint merely has to state a ‘plausible claim for relief.’” (quoting Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678-79)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).