Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 11, 2018No. Civil Action No. 17–950 (JEB)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Plaintiff Andrea Johnson is a former employee of Defendant Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which, she charitably alleges, operates the "always dependable transit service in the Washington metropolitan area." Amend. Compl., ¶ 4. Her suit, however, does not depend on the punctuality of Metro; it instead alleges that WMATA unlawfully discriminated against her on the basis of race and sex when it demoted her from a supervisory role in January 2015. Now seeking summary judgment, WMATA contends that no reasonable jury could find that…
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