Frank J. Carman v. McDonnell Douglas Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that promises of confidentiality to third parties was not enough to establish a privilege
• rejecting a corporate ombudsman privilege and stating that \[t]he creation of a wholly new evidentiary privilege is a big step\
• concluding complaints registered with a corporate ombudsman office were not privileged
• “Companywide statistics are usually not helpful in establishing pretext in an employment discrimination case, because those who make employment decisions vary across divisions.”
• “Company-wide statistics are usually not helpful in establishing pretext in an employment-discrimination case, because those who make employment decisions vary across divisions.”
• “Companywide statistics are usually not helpful in establishing pretext in an employment discrimination case, because those who make employment decisions vary across divisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).