Laxton v. Gap Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \[t]he relevant inquiry is whether\ the supervisor harboring a discriminatory animus \had influence or leverage over\ the decisionmaking of those \principally responsible for the adverse employment action\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that \the discriminatory animus of a manager can be imputed to the ultimate decisionmaker if the [manager]. . . . `had influence or leverage over'\ the ultimate decisionmaker (quoting Russell v. McKinney Hosp. Venture, 235 F.3d 219, 226 (5th Cir.2000))
• holding that race- discrimination plaintiff may establish pretext “through evidence of disparate treatment”
• holding that “the discriminatory animus of a manager can be imputed to the ultimate decisionmaker if the [manager] * * * ‘had influ- ence or leverage over’ ” the ultimate decision-maker (citation 262 Crosbie v. Asante omitted)
• noting that a remark must show animus and come from a primary decisionmaker to constitute pretext
• explaining that a manager’s prejudice is relevant only if he had influence or leverage over the actual decisionmakers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

207 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Turner v. Baylor Richardson Medical Center
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-01-19· cited 1,262×
• McCoy v. City of Shreveport
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-07-11· cited 844×
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. LHC Group, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-12-11· cited 448×
• Luca Cicalese v. Univ of Texas Medical Bran
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-05-16· cited 408×
• Jackson v. Cal-Western Packaging Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-03-26· cited 383×
• Sylvia Dominguez-Curry v. Nevada Transportation Department Roc Stacey
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-09-14· cited 363×
• Gregory Willis v. Cleco Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-04-08· cited 339×
• Poland v. Chertoff
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-07-20· cited 289×
• Moss v. BMC Software, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-07-02· cited 270×
• Roberson v. Alltel Information Services
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-06-30· cited 261×
• Darrell L. Burrell v. Dr. Pepper/seven Up Bottling Group, Inc. Dr. Pepper/seven Up Bottling Group, L.P.
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-03-20· cited 258×
• Nicole Burton v. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., et
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-08-10· cited 224×
• Ronald Reed v. Neopost USA, Incorporated
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-11-13· cited 221×
• Jerrell Squyres v. Heico Companies, L.L.C.
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-04-02· cited 221×
• Maurice Goudeau v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-07-16· cited 194×
• Carol Vaughn v. Woodforest Bank
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-12-21· cited 175×
• Gerald Caldwell v. KHOU-TV
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-03-06· cited 164×
• Wheeler v. BL Development Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-06-29· cited 141×
• Haire v. Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-05-21· cited 141×
• Kanida v. Gulf Coast Medical Personnel LP
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-04-12· cited 138×

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 38,518×
• Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-12· cited 12,455×
• St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-25· cited 8,844×
• The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-04-07· cited 2,445×
• Kolstad v. American Dental Assn.
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-22· cited 1,125×
• Fayette Long Jeanell Reavis v. Eastfield College
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-08-15· cited 703×
• California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-13· cited 662×
• Shackelford v. Deloitte & Touche, LLP
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-10-04· cited 492×
• Ralph C. SHAGER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UPJOHN COMPANY and Asgrow Seed Company, Defendants-Appellees
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-09-17· cited 491×
• Evans v. The City of Houston
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-03-21· cited 430×
• Veronica A. Wallace v. The Methodist Hospital System
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-11-07· cited 412×
• Kenneth D. Sandstad v. Cb Richard Ellis, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-10-28· cited 392×
• Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-20· cited 367×
• Brown v. CSC Logic, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-05-13· cited 304×
• Price v. Federal Express Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-03-12· cited 298×
• Rubinstein v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-07-06· cited 261×
• Auguster v. Vermilion Parish School Board
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-05-03· cited 217×
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Texas Instruments Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-12-10· cited 197×
• Kenneth Smith v. Transworld Drilling Company Vessel, Rig 44, in Rem
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-10-10· cited 176×
• Shows v. Jamison Bedding, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-04-02· cited 158×