Richardson v. Sugg

How courts have described this case

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• applying Oubre’s policy considerations to a prospective Title VII waiver and finding “that the doctrines of tender-back and ratification do not bar [Plaintiff’s] suit.”
• rejecting cat’s paw theory when decisionmaker conducted “independent review” and had “independent basis for his decision’
• noting “stray remarks, statements by nondecisionmakers, or statements by decisionmakers that are unrelated to the decisional process” do not meet the required causal link of proof
• plaintiff sued university’s chancellor and president for university’s discriminatory termination decision that was allegedly influenced by the university’s athletic -9- director
• “Where a decisionmaker makes an independent determination . . . and does not serve as a mere conduit for another’s discriminatory motives, the ‘cat’s-paw’ theory fails.”

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