Ellis v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that rumor and conjecture are not enough to create a factual dispute about a defendant’s knowledge
• “So, to be similarly situated, a manager must have been treated more favorably by the same decisionmaker … .”
• “But most of Ellis’s purported comparators are not similarly situated to him because they were not subject to the same decisionmaker as Ellis when they purportedly violated the policy.”
• “Different decisionmakers may rely on different factors when deciding whether, and how severely, to discipline an employee. So, to be similarly situated, [an employee] must have been treated more favorably by the same decisionmaker that fired the [plaintiff].”
• “Different decisionmakers may rely on different factors when deciding whether, and how severely, to discipline an employee. So, to be similarly situated, [an employee] must have been treated more favorably by the same decisionmaker that fired the [plaintiff].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).