Lee Browning v. President Riverboat Casino-Missouri, Inc., Lee Browning v. President Riverboat Casino-Missouri, Inc., Cross-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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

• finding immediate supervisor’s reference to employee as “that white boy” in context of employment was direct evidence of racially discriminatory attitude
• finding use of racial slur by supervisor direct evidence of race-based discrimination
• rejecting an appeal of a district court’s award of attorneys’ fees based on arguments that the award was excessive and unreasonable due to lack of complexity, duplicative fees, and undocumented hours
• “ ‘[DJirect evidence’ does not include ‘stray remarks in the workplace,’ ‘statements by nondecisionmakers,’ or ‘statements by decisionmakers unrelated to the decisional process itself ”
• “Appellate review of a jury verdict is extremely deferential”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).