Robert Cortez v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “subjective criteria . . . are particularly easy for an employer to invent in an effort to sabotage a plaintiff’s prima facie case and mask discrimination” (quotation cleaned up)
• analyzing the “qualified” aspect of a prima facie case and stating that “[w]e have long respected employers’ wide latitude in setting job standards and requirements and in deciding whether applicants meet those standards.”
• “We have long respected employers’ wide latitude in setting job standards and requirements and in deciding whether applicants meet those standards.”
• primary purpose of pretrial order is to avoid surprise by requiring parties to “fully and fairly disclose their views as to what the real issues of the trial will be”
• claims, issues, defenses and theories of damages not included in pretrial order waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).