United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · 2019-03-05
42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: civil; Section 1981 race and ethnicity claim by a U.S. citizen employed in Shanghai by a GM affiliate (mandatory retirement at 60; denied transfer to the United States); GM's Rule 12(b)(6) motion granted as to the Section 1981 count (E.D. Mich.); result: claimant-lost; claim:
Uncertainty
Element protected-person: basis: a legal construction of the statute's territorial reach (following Ofori-Tenkorang) applied to the complaint's allegations; [pleaded] would also be defensible
Misfit
None recorded
B · Case × element grid
Top-level elements follow claim order in panels of up to six elements. Case rows repeat across panels. Every recorded block retains its holding and basis; multiple blocks are not merged into a case-level verdict. ✓ satisfied · ✗ not satisfied · ○ not reached · · not addressed. Muted blocks are not counted. Sub-element evidence remains on case and element pages.
Elements 1–6 of 15
| Case | Persons protected by equal contractual rights | Plaintiff has rights in an existing or proposed contract | Formation performance termination or contractual benefits | Judicial intentional-race-discrimination requirement | Judicial but-for causation of contractual injury | Nongovernmental impairment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wang v. Gen. Motors, LLC — 371 F. Supp. 3d 407 (2019) · United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed |
Elements 7–12 of 15
| Case | Judicial section 1983 remedial route for state-law impairment | Opposition to racial impairment of contract rights | Judicial defendant-knowledge requirement for retaliation | Judicial material-adversity requirement for retaliation | Judicial causation requirement for retaliatory injury | Contract and retaliation scope with noncontract clauses identified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wang v. Gen. Motors, LLC — 371 F. Supp. 3d 407 (2019) · United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed |
Elements 13–15 of 15
| Case | Judicial hostile-environment threshold and attribution | Claim-specific limitations and accrual | Compensatory equitable punitive and fee remedies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wang v. Gen. Motors, LLC — 371 F. Supp. 3d 407 (2019) · United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed |
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
| Case | Element | Holding and scope | Pattern | Exact source quotations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wang v. Gen. Motors, LLC — 371 F. Supp. 3d 407 (2019) · United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · 2019 — not · law (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | Persons protected by equal contractual rights | not Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: law | us-citizen-working-in-china-for-affiliate-of-us-employer | The Second Circuit held: " Section 1981's territorial limitation is defined by the location of the subject of the discrimination, not by the location of the decisionmaker."Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_371.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/371/0407-01; Unicode character offsets [20784:20956] (end exclusive); SHA-256 44719372de0b1641b6668dbf7d0281dfbd460fd3701d1f76f33e6b2df949adf1.On or about July 1, 2009, GM transferred Plaintiff to a new job assignment at GMCIC as Senior Manager for Automotive Performance, Test and Validation in the Engineering Laboratories Department.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_371.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/371/0407-01; Unicode character offsets [4611:4804] (end exclusive); SHA-256 44719372de0b1641b6668dbf7d0281dfbd460fd3701d1f76f33e6b2df949adf1.He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1999, and currently maintains only U.S. citizenship.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_371.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/371/0407-01; Unicode character offsets [4409:4510] (end exclusive); SHA-256 44719372de0b1641b6668dbf7d0281dfbd460fd3701d1f76f33e6b2df949adf1.In his Complaint, Plaintiff alleges that he requested to "be transferred back to the United States if he was not allowed to continue to work in China" and "made several other contacts with GM in an effort to obtain a position back in the United States, but he was denied a transfer."Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_371.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/371/0407-01; Unicode character offsets [16257:16540] (end exclusive); SHA-256 44719372de0b1641b6668dbf7d0281dfbd460fd3701d1f76f33e6b2df949adf1.The only discriminatory conduct Plaintiff has alleged in his Complaint and briefs (see Pl.'s Resp. Br. at 6, ECF No. 14 at Pg ID 137) occurred while he was outside the jurisdiction of the United States.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_371.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/371/0407-01; Unicode character offsets [21968:22170] (end exclusive); SHA-256 44719372de0b1641b6668dbf7d0281dfbd460fd3701d1f76f33e6b2df949adf1.The Court concludes that § 1981 does not extend to such conduct and is therefore granting GM's motion to dismiss Plaintiff's § 1981 claim (Count III).Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_371.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/371/0407-01; Unicode character offsets [22171:22321] (end exclusive); SHA-256 44719372de0b1641b6668dbf7d0281dfbd460fd3701d1f76f33e6b2df949adf1. |