Thomas v. Berry Plastics Corporation

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• observing that the employer’s post- termination independent review process is separate from the adverse action, i.e., the termination
• explaining that the “post-termination review process,” which “was designed to . . . unwind termination decisions that violated company practices and policies,” broke the causal chain between the biased recommendation and the termination (emphasis added)
• relying on termination review panel’s review of employee’s entire disciplinary record for eight supervisors and interview of employee when rejecting cat’s paw theory
• employer’s review process “broke the causal chain” between co-worker’s retaliatory animus and employer’s adverse action, where there was no evidence that review “was a sham” or that anyone on the review panel “acted with animus”
• same for Title VII and § 1981 retaliation claims
• assessing § 1981 claim under the McDonnell-Douglas framework

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).