context: The district court properly granted summary judgment on Taylor's discrimination claims because Taylor failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants' legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for their adverse employment actions, including the failure to provide a salary increase and a bonus, were pretextual.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 374 F.3d 840, 850
citation_a.parenthetical: "Analysis of an employment discrimination claim under SS 1981 follows the same legal principles as those applicable in a Title VII disparate treatment case."
citation_a.sentence: See Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 546 U.S. 454, 456, 126 S.Ct. 1195, 163 L.Ed.2d 1053 (2006) (noting that use of the term “boy” will “not always be evidence of racial animus”); Vasquez, 349 F.3d at 640-42 & n. 5 (listing elements of a discrimination claim under Title VII and explaining that circumstantial evidence of pretext must be specific and substantial); Nidds v. Schindler Elevator Corp., 113 F.3d 912, 919 (9th Cir.1996) (an ambiguous comment that is not tied directly to an alleged adverse employment action is “weak evidence and not enough to create an inference of [race] discrimination”); Merrick v. Farmers Ins. Group, 892 F.2d 1434, 1438 (9th Cir.1990) (“ ‘stray' remarks are insufficient to establish discrimination”); see also Fonseca v. Sysco Food Servs. of Ariz., Inc., 374 F.3d 840, 850 (9th Cir.2004) (“Analysis of an employment discrimination claim under § 1981 follows the same legal principles as those applicable in a Title VII disparate treatment case.”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.parenthetical: listing elements of a discrimination claim under Title VII and explaining that circumstantial evidence of pretext must be specific and substantial
citation_b.sentence: See Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 546 U.S. 454, 456, 126 S.Ct. 1195, 163 L.Ed.2d 1053 (2006) (noting that use of the term “boy” will “not always be evidence of racial animus”); Vasquez, 349 F.3d at 640-42 & n. 5 (listing elements of a discrimination claim under Title VII and explaining that circumstantial evidence of pretext must be specific and substantial); Nidds v. Schindler Elevator Corp., 113 F.3d 912, 919 (9th Cir.1996) (an ambiguous comment that is not tied directly to an alleged adverse employment action is “weak evidence and not enough to create an inference of [race] discrimination”); Merrick v. Farmers Ins. Group, 892 F.2d 1434, 1438 (9th Cir.1990) (“ ‘stray' remarks are insufficient to establish discrimination”); see also Fonseca v. Sysco Food Servs. of Ariz., Inc., 374 F.3d 840, 850 (9th Cir.2004) (“Analysis of an employment discrimination claim under § 1981 follows the same legal principles as those applicable in a Title VII disparate treatment case.”).