Jeri Platner v. Cash & Thomas Contractors, Inc., Jack Thomas, and Savonda Thomas

How courts have described this case

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• holding no sex discrimination occurred when an employee was fired after engaging in sexually suggestive conduct with her supervisor, who was also the owner’s son
• stating that basis for plaintiff’s dismissal was not gender but favoritism for a close relative, which, however “unseemly and regrettable,” did not constitute discrimination under Title VII
• upholding judgment for employer in sex discrimination case where the owner’s son was perceived to be having an affair with the female plaintiff and the owner fired the plaintiff but not his son
• “A racially discriminatory motive cannot, as a matter of law, be invariably inferred from favoritism shown on the basis of some family relationship.”
• “nepotism as such does not constitute discrimination under Title VII.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).