Haynes v. Caye & Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding the company president’s statement that women are “not competent enough” to perform a job that the plaintiff desired, and was denied, was direct evidence of discrimination
• concluding the company president’s statement that women are “not competent enough” to perform a job that the plaintiff desired, and was denied, was direct evidence of discrimination
• “Indeed, a statement that members of a racial minority in general or women in general are simply not competent enough to do a particular job would seem to be a classic example of direct evidence.”
• comments to female employee that “women were simply not tough enough to do the job” from which employee had been removed and that it would “require a man to do [that] job” was direct evidence of gender discrimination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).