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· 9/17/2012

Gage Elon Hunter v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

Citations

  • 697 F.3d 697
  • 2012 WL 4052403
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 19459
  • 96 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 44,616
  • 116 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[T]he employee must show that the employer was sufficiently aware of the employee’s [religion] to have been capable of discriminating based on it.”
  • where employer uses objective criteria such as job history as part of promotion decision, the use of subjective considerations does not give rise to an inference of discrimination
  • where employer uses objective criteria such as job history as part of promotional decision, the use of additional subjective considerations does not give rise to an inference of discrimination
  • “In cases of discrimination based on a protected status that is not necessarily obvious, . . . the employee must show that the employer was sufficiently aware of the employee’s status to have been capable of discriminating based on it.”
  • “In cases of discrimination based on a protected status that is not necessarily obvious . . . the employee must show that the employer was sufficiently aware of the employee’s status to have been capable of discriminating based on it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Loken, Beam, Perry

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