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Stray Remarks May Be Considered Evidence of Discrimination in California.

Source: California Employment Law Articles
The California Supreme Court recently issued a unanimous decision that could make it more difficult for employers to win summary judgment in certain discrimination cases involving potentially discriminatory comments. In Reid v. Google, Inc., the Court declined to adopt the “stray remarks doctrine,” under which some courts have deemed irrelevant and insufficient to defeat summary judgment, “stray” potentially discriminatory remarks made either (a) by non-decision making employees, or (b) by decision-making supervisors outside of the decisional process.

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