Patrick Bannon Quoted in Law360“High Court Poised to Shape Landscape for Retaliation Suits”

Seyfarth Shaw Labor & Employment partner Patrick Bannon is quoted in and April 23 Law360 article discussing the U.S. Supreme Court case University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, in which the justices will weigh in the issue of mixed-motive retaliation claims under Title VII.

According to Patrick, “Retaliation cases are a large and growing category of discrimination cases, so the legal standard that determines whether a defendant can be held liable is going to play itself out in thousands and thousands of cases all across the country…This case will decide what thousands of juries will be told just before retreat from the jury box to make their decision — and those instructions are the rules of the road for who is going to win, so they are very important.”