Sassaman v. Gamache

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “a reasonable jury could construe [the statement ‘you probably did what the accuser said you did because you’re male’] as an invidious sex stereotype”
• holding that “a reasonable jury could construe [the statement ‘you probably did what the accuser said you did because you’re male’] as an invidious sex stereotype”
• stating that “individuals are not subject to liability under Title VII”
• describing a plaintiff’s burden as “de minimis” at the prima facie stage (internal quotation marks omitted)
• dismissing Title VII complaint with respect to the plaintiff’s former supervisor because “individuals are not subject to liability under Title VII”
• declining to characterize remark as “stray” where 13 defendant made remark on the very same phone call during which he convinced the plaintiff to 14 resign

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).