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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Allows “Cat’s Paw” Theory of Liability in Discrimination Cases

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Discrimination & Harassment, Litigation

Time and again, pundits suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court now is among the most conservative in decades and, by extension, pro-business. If that’s the case, they’re going to be awfully surprised with today’s 8-0 ruling in Staub v. Proctor Hospital (download here) in which the court broadened the methods that an employee can use… Continue Reading

Paid Administrative Leave is Not an “Adverse Employment Action”

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Discrimination & Harassment, Litigation

Not everything that happens in the workplace can give rise to a viable discrimination or retaliation claim.  Various courts have emphasized that there must be an "adverse employment action". Otherwise, a claim will go nowhere. But what exactly IS an adverse employment action? A new federal court case in Connecticut — in borrowing from judicial dictum… Continue Reading