More than one Cat's paw

Charles Sullivan at Workplace Prof Blog has an excellent post on why Staub v. Proctor Hospital may not be so plaintiff's friendly at all. We agree as our previous post suggests.

Cat's Paw approved by SCOTUS

The Supreme Court has decided that the "cat's paw" theory is applicable in at least some employment cases. The theory relates to the situation where a decision maker without discriminatory animus is affected by the advice of others who have discriminatory animus. The case involved allegations of discrimination against an army reservist who claimed his immediate supervisor fabricated a disciplinary warning due to hostility to his military obligations. The employer's vice president of human resources received a report on the disciplinary warning, reviewed the employee's personnel file and terminated the employee's employment. More after the jump