Lou Anne Perkins v. Barry Hicks D/B/A Sunshine Remodeling

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an employer can be held liable when a decision-making official - like Joseph Donahue - “relies on false information that is manipulated by another employee who harbors illegitimate animus to take an adverse employment action.”
• “Unlike with a status-based discrimination claim, a plaintiff alleging retaliation can’t rely on a mixed-motives theory; he must show but-for causation[.]”
• Under this theory, “an employer can be held liable when a decision-making official . . . relies on false information that is manipulated by another employee who harbors illegitimate animus to take an adverse employment action.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).