The Supreme Court Speaks:

Has the recent Supreme Court decision in Sprint/United Management Co. v. Mendelsohn changed the way parties prove intent to discriminate? Sometimes referred to as “'me, too' or 'other supervisor' evidence" case, Sprint addressed the admissibility of testimony of other employees alleging discriminatory remarks or conduct by supervisors who had no role in the challenged employment decision. The Court discussed the deference due district court evidentiary rulings based on Rules 401 and 403. 

Join Professor Eric Schnapper, who briefed the case before the Supreme Court for the plaintiffs, and Paul Cane, who argued the case on behalf of the employer, in a discussion of the case and its implications for discrimination cases — discovery, summary judgment, and trial — pending in the district courts.

Christine Cooper (Moderator) has taught at Loyola University Chicago School of Law since 1978. Her courses have covered labor and employment law, as well as contracts and torts.  She is the immediate past secretary to the ABA Section of Labor and Employment. She also arbitrates and mediates. Over the past 25 years, she has held a variety of leadership positions in the ABA and has worked on nearly 100 CLE programs.

Paul Cane is a partner in Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP’s San Francisco office, where he is chair of his firm's appellate practice group. Mr. Cane briefed and argued Sprint/United Management Co. v. Mendelsohn on behalf of Sprint. In 2003, he represented Raytheon Co. in the Supreme Court in Raytheon Co. v. Hernandez, a unanimous decision for his client in an Americans with Disabilities Act case. Mr. Cane speaks and writes frequently. He was editor-in-chief of the third edition of the ABA treatise, Employment Discrimination Law. His most recent article, published last year in The Labor Lawyer, is "Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: How The Peter Principle Warps Statistical Analysis of Age Discrimination Claims."

Eric Schnapper is a professor of law at the University of Washington in Seattle. Previously, he served for 25 years as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York City, where he specialized in appellate litigation. Since 1972, Professor Schnapper has represented litigants in more than 80 cases in the Supreme Court, including Burlington Northern Rwy. v. White, Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, and Burlington Industries v. Ellerth, among others. Most recently he represented the plaintiff in Sprint v. Mendelsohn.

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