V.D.B. Pacific B.V. v. Chassman

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing the plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim because she “failed to allege that any of the defendants’ specific actions were motivated by discriminatory animus”
• dismissing plaintiff’s failure to promote claim and finding the allegation that she was not promoted “as a result of defendants’ individual policy and custom of disproportionate hiring and promoting African American line attorneys” to be insufficient
• dismissing claim for failure to promote where the plaintiff “offer[ed] no facts in support of that claim and therefore fail[ed] to allege sufficiently that the failure to promote her . . . was based on her race”
• “[T]he allegation that the position went to a less qualified nonminority [employee is] sufficient to establish an inference of discrimination for a failure-to-promote claim.”
• “Though [the] plaintiff insists that [the defendant’s stated justification] was ‘a pretext to cover up racial discrimination,’ she offers no facts in support of that claim and therefore fails to allege sufficiently that the failure to promote her . . . was based on her race.” (citation omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).