Laxton v. Gap Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• 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

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