Hopefully, that will change, said Schnapper, who has three times petitioned the Supreme Court to take up the cat's paw theory. "The Court is clearly going to take this at some time," he said.

City of Hallandale Beach v. Rosemond, 4D2022-2642, 2024 WL 2836937 (Fla. 4th DCA June 5, 2024) - A former city employee filed a lawsuit against the ...

2 Typically, in “discrimination and retaliation cases, a plaintiff may assert the ‘cat’s paw’ theory to impute the bias of a supervisor who lacks decision-making authority to the employer ...

A manager reported discrepancies in the plaintiff’s time and computer usage — but another worker with “nearly identical ...

The cat burns his paw. The monkey runs off with the nuts. Since 1990, legal jargon has borrowed from the fable to create the "cat's paw theory." ...

On March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court validated the long-debated “cat’s paw” theory in Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 11 C.D.O.S. 2692. The term refers to one of Aesop’s fables in which a monkey ...

"We find both speculative and implausible Justice Alito's prediction that our nation's employers will systematically disfavor members of the armed services in their hiring decisions to avoid the ...

Tim Garrett, Bass Berry & Sims' always-interesting blogger, writes about the so-called "cat's paw theory" on the firm's Tennessee Labor Talk blog site. Garrett (pictured), who specializes in labor ...