Macon v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that although an allegedly biased subordinate started the process leading to plaintiffs termination, plaintiffs invocation of the company’s grievance procedure “triggered a review process which appropriately constrained any improper motive”
• stating that the plaintiff had not shown “how any retaliatory motive” by subordinate employees could be imputed to employer “when the final decision to terminate him was made by [a] grievance panel”
• recognizing only the filing of a claim as protected activity
• federal courts sitting in diversity must apply the substantive law of the forum state
• “[I]f the supervisor’s ability to make employment- related decisions is contingent on the independent affirmation of a higher-level manager or review committee, we focus on the motive of [the] final decisionmaker.”
• although co-worker initiated process leading to plaintiff’s termination, coworker’s retaliatory motive could not be imputed to employer when final decision to terminate plaintiff was made after an independent review of plaintiff’s conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).