Portia Surtain v. Hamlin Terrace Foundation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court did not err in sua sponte dismissing a claim after entry of default because the plaintiff failed to provide a sufficient basis for the judgment
• holding that the McDonnell Douglas framework is “the wrong legal standard” to apply at the pleading stage
• ruling that “McDonnell Douglas’s burden-shifting framework is an evidentiary standard, not a pleading requirement.”
• holding that knowledge that an employee visited a doctor and had a doctor's excuse for not returning to work was not enough to show the employer perceived the employee as disabled
• noting that “a sufficient basis” standard is akin to that necessary to survive a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim
• noting that a “default judgment is like a reverse motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).