Robert Hudson v. Chicago Transit Authority, a Municipal Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when evaluating Title VII claims, a court cannot “sit as a super-personnel department that reexamines an entity’s business decisions.”
• stating that, even if employer had made the wrong decision, the plaintiff would need to show that the stated reasons were lies covering a discriminatory motive
• affirming summary judgment for employer where employee did not apply for the position at issue
• affirming summary judgment for employer where employee did not apply for the position at issue
• “Pretext is more than a mistake on the part of the employer; it is a phony excuse.”
• “If the plaintiff fails to satisfy any one element, it is fatal to his retaliation claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).