Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Alton Packaging Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff alleging race discrimination in employer’s refusal to promote him was entitled to Price Waterhouse instruction where one of two de-cisionmakers had said he would not hire blacks if it were his company
• holding that a production manager’s statement, “you people can’t do a - thing right,” to a former black employee was a “stray remark,” which did not constitute direct evidence of discrimination by itself
• holding that, although the district court at a bench trial “erred in its choice of legal principles, the error was harmless because [the prevailing party] would have prevailed under the applicable legal principles”
• holding that, although the district court at a bench trial “erred in its choice of legal principles, the error was harmless because [the prevailing party] would have prevailed under the applicable legal principles”
• statement by plant’s general manager that “if it was his company, he wouldn’t hire any black people” was direct evidence of discrimination
• statement by plant’s general manager that “if it was his company, he wouldn’t hire any black people” was direct evidence of discrimination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).