Legal Opinion

Dawson v. Wal-Mart Stores East, LP

District Court, N.D. Alabama

Decided January 19, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:15-cv-1799-WMAPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM M. ACKER, JR., UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

This is another in the ever lengthening parade of employment discrimination cases that require an application of the concept of “but-for” causation as an essential to the viability of the statutory claim. The above entitled action, brought by Willie J. Dawson, is a dead ringer for, or the clone of, Savage v. Secure First Credit Union, 107 F.Supp.3d 1212 (N.D.Ala.2015), decided by this court and now pending on appeal in the Eleventh Circuit. Both plaintiff Savage and plaintiff Dawson insist on a right to bring…

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