Hague v. Thompson Distribution Company

How courts have described this case

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

• finding evidence that Caucasian plaintiffs were fired by African-American bosses and replaced by other African-American employees satisfied the first element in a reverse discrimination case because it is analogous to typical discrimination cases
• “By admitting to the conduct at issue—swearing, yelling, and returning the boilers—Brown is left attacking Thompson Distribution’s leadership and business judgment. That will not suffice.”
• “The plaintiffs must do more than merely point to [racial composition statistics] and proclaim: ’Aha! Discrimination.’ ”
• “[I]f the plaintiffs rely on the racial composition of a workforce as evidence of discrimination it must subject all of the employer’s decisions to statistical analysis to find out whether [race] makes a difference.”
• “[I]f the plaintiffs argue that they have performed satisfactorily and the employer is lying about the business expectations required for the position, the second prong and the pretext question seemingly merge because the issue is the same—whether the employer is lying.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).