10th Circuit Orders Reconsideration Of Personal Liability In Bias Suit

(April 26, 2017, 1:48 PM EDT) -- DENVER — A Colorado federal court erred in finding that under the cat’s paw theory, an unbiased decisionmaker may be personally liable for an adverse action based on a subordinate supervisor’s racially motivated recommendation, a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeal panel ruled April 21; however, the panel remanded the matter for the trial court to reconsider whether the decisionmaker himself was actually biased based on the limited scope of his investigation prior to firing the patrol officer (Stanley Crews v. Clifford Paine, et al., No. 16-1216, 10th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 6979)....

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