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Hack v. President and Fellows of Yale College

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Overruled in part
Court
Second Circuit
Citation
237 F.3d 81
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
33 of 33
Citing cases (total)
33
Treatment dates
2002
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Hack v. President and Fellows of Yale College has been displaced on its requirement that a discrimination plaintiff plead facts establishing a prima facie case. All 33 flagged citations have been read.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling in Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A. is listed below; later courts, including the Second Circuit in Meyer v. Bear Road Associates, describe Hack as abrogated on other grounds. Courts continue to cite Hack’s separate holdings on Yale’s status, antitrust markets, and Fair Housing Act issues.

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.

33 later cases cite Hack v. President and Fellows of Yale College; 33 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

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court rejected treating a prima facie discrimination case as a pleading requirement, displacing Hack’s demand for prima facie allegations at the motion-to-dismiss stage.

    Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A. · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Given that the prima facie case operates as a flexible evidentiary standard, it should not be transposed into a rigid pleading standard for discrimination cases.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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