Stephanie Brown v. Allen Sessoms

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• concluding that plaintiff sufficiently stated section 1981 claim by “identify[ing] a similarly-situated employee who is not in her protected class and explain[ing] why she has equivalent qualifications”
• concluding that plaintiff sufficiently stated § 1981 claim 8 because she “identified a similarly-situated employee who is not in her protected class and explained why she has equivalent qualifications”
• holding that McDonnell Douglas framework applies to both DCHRA and section 1981 claims
• holding that a plaintiff had raised her right to relief “above the speculative level” where she pleaded that the university had granted tenure to “a similarly-situated employee who [was] not in her protected class”
• holding that “Johnson controls our resolution of Brown’s section 1981 claim”
• holding that McDonnell-Douglas applies to both DCHRA and Section 1981 claims

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