Lindsay v. Yates

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiffs-purchasers properly pleaded a Section 1981 claim by alleging that (1) sellers advertised their house for sale; (2) plaintiffs signed a purchase agreement and made a deposit; and (3
• restating holding in Swierkiewicz that “an employment-discrimination plaintiff satisfies her pleading burden by drafting a ‘short and plain statement of the claim’ consistent with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a).”
• noting Swierkiewicz’s holding that “an employment-discrimination plaintiff satisfies her pleading burden by drafting a short and plain statement of the claim consistent with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a).” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The McDonnell Douglas/Burdine framework applies only when discrimination plaintiffs rely on circumstantial evidence to prove their claims.”
• legal 6 standard for adjudicating a Rule 12(c) motion is the same as for a Rule 12(b)(6) motion
• “The McDonnell Douglas / Burdine framework applies only when discrimination plaintiffs rely on circumstantial evidence to prove their claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).