Hawn v. Executive Jet Management, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that imposing a strict same-supervisor requirement in an ill-fitting case was error; instead, comparators must be similar “in all material respects”
• noting that a plaintiff’s burden to make a prima 22 facie case of discrimination is “not onerous.”
• noting that “a plaintiff’s burden is much less at the prima facie stage than at the pretext stage” (citations omitted)
• explaining that specific and substantial evidence of pretext is required to defeat a motion for summary judgment
• explaining that analysis of 5 similarly situated employees may be relevant to both plaintiff’s prima facie case and at the 6 pretext stage
• explaining that the first 15 and third step of the analysis involve different burdens and analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).