Sharon MacY v. Hopkins County School Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the sole-motivation standard is still the law of this circuit, even though it is in tension with other circuits
• stating that the fourth element requires a showing that a plaintiff “suffered [the adverse employment action] under circumstances which give rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination”
• observing that there are many “context-dependent ways by which plaintiffs may establish a prima facie case”
• observing that there are many “context-dependent ways by which plaintiffs may establish a prima facie case”
• explaining that, unlike “every other circuit save one,” the Sixth Circuit continues to subject claims brought under either the ADA or the Rehabilitation Act to the same substantive standard despite the linguistic differences between the two acts
• applying the McDonnell Douglas framework only because the plaintiff “attempts to meet [her] burden by presenting circumstantial evidence of discrimination”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).