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Bobo v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

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Criticized by some courts
Court
Sixth Circuit
Citation
665 F.3d 741
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
31 of 31
Citing cases (total)
31
Treatment dates
2026
Criticized by some courts
At least one reviewed court has criticized this case’s reasoning. No reviewed court has overruled it. Bobo v. United Parcel Service, Inc. remains binding Sixth Circuit law, but its comparator analysis has drawn criticism. All 31 flagged citations have been read.
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The confirmed criticism is listed below: a district court questioned Bobo's treatment of employees with different supervisors, then followed Bobo and denied summary judgment. Later opinions continue to apply Bobo's comparator rule. Their parentheticals describing University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar as abrogating Bobo on other grounds report a separate Supreme Court ruling about Title VII retaliation causation; Nassar did not address Bobo's comparator rule.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

31 later cases cite Bobo v. United Parcel Service, Inc.; 31 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Criticized

  • The court said Bobo's comparator holding was in substantial tension with other Sixth Circuit decisions, but followed it as binding law.

    Anderson v. Federal Express · W.D. Tennessee · filed

    But it is in substantial tension with other cases providing relatively granular factors. Respectfully, this might be an area warranting some cleanup by the Sixth Circuit. But, in any event, this Court is bound by Bobo, which precludes summary judgment for FedEx on McDonnell Douglas’s prima facie step.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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