Smita Sanghvi Tarun Sanghvi v. City of Claremont, and Suzan Smith Paul Heid Algrid Leiga Diann Ring Karen Rosenthal Glenn D. Southard

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• holding that plaintiffs waived their challenge to pretext instruction by failing to object and requesting alternative pretext instruction
• holding that the Noerr-Pennington doctrine barred a Fair Housing Act claim
• noting that burden-shifting framework under McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973), is applicable to FHA and § 1981 claims
• noting that McDonnell Douglas framework devel- oped in the Title VII context extends to FHA and ADA claims
• critiquing in another context “the use of legalistic language and the complexities of burden shifting” and concluding “the only question that should go to the jury is the ultimate question of discrimination”
• Title VII and ADEA claims are analyzed under the same burden- shifting framework

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