· 1/31/2025
Las Cumbres Fuel, Corp v. Vp Petroleum, LLC.
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- holding that there was no causal link where there was no “[p]roof of the decisionmaker’s knowledge or awareness of those complaints”
- finding that the plaintiff failed to put forth enough evidence, under either test, for a reasonable factfinder to conclude that illegal discrimination occurred
- explaining that “un- published cases are not precedential and they bind no one” (internal quotation marks omitted)
- finding that the plaintiff failed to put forth enough evidence, under either test, for a reasonable jury to conclude that illegal discrimination occurred
- emphasizing that both the McDonnell Douglas framework and the convincing-mosaic approach are merely “two paths to the same destination — the ordinary summary judgment standard” (citing Tynes, 88 F.4th at 943– 47)
- explaining that, “a plaintiff wishing to prevail on a particular theory of liability must present that argument to the district court” and rejecting a Quigg mixed- motive theory of liability raised for the first time on appeal
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