Curtiss L. Cook v. Csx Transportation Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when one white employee was disciplined more harshly than the plaintiff, who was black, plaintiffs punishment fell within a normal range of discipline
• recognizing that a comparison of two separate incidents will likely never involve the exact facts and that a court should compare the more salient factors from both incidents
• finding that plaintiff engaged in misconduct of comparable seriousness to that of employees of another race who violated the same rule but were not terminated
• finding that employees were similarly situated within the meaning of the prima facie - case requirement when they “had engaged in conduct of ‘comparable seriousness’ to that of [the plaintiff]”
• approving comparisons between employees of protected and unprotected Title VII races at prima facie test stage of racially disparate discipline claim
• affirming summary judgment in disciplinary discrimination case because employee only provided one example of an arguably similarly situated white employee who received less severe discipline for similar misconduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).