Everett Chattman v. Toho Tenax America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that whether an employer’s adverse action was “unrelated” to a supervisor’s biased action is an “issue of material fact”
• holding that evidence of similarly situated employees who engaged in substantially identical conduct but were not terminated can be used to demonstrate that the employer’s stated reason for the adverse action is pretextual
• noting that multiple proximate causes of an injury are possible under the common law of torts
• observing that the cat’s paw theory requires, among other things, proof of a supervisor’s discriminatory animus
• determining that plaintiff could rely on cat’s paw theory of liability for Title VII race discrimination claims
• finding that an “employee’s ability to influence the ultimate decisionmaker” is key factor in determining whether animus may be imputed to an employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).