Isiah Thomas v. Marvin T. Runyon, Jr., Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service

How courts have described this case

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

• stating in a Title VII race discrimination case that “[o]ur determination is limited to whether the employer gave an honest nondiscriminatory explanation for its actions, rather than to weigh the wisdom of any particular employment decision”
• “In order to defeat the [summary judgment] motion, plaintiff must develop some evidence or argument going beyond possible self-interest of the witness.”
• if defendant advances non- discriminatory reason, plaintiff must prove reason is pretext for illegal discrimination
• “if plaintiff was not content with the record, he could have- taken [supervisor’s] deposition”
• “a nonmoving party seeking to avoid having summary judgment entered against it may not rest on mere allegations or denials but must set forth specific facts sufficient to raise a genuine material issue for trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).