Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc.

Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below, and in other Tenth Circuit cases, conflicts with this Court’s decision in Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 562 U.S. 411 (2011) — and the postStaub approaches taken by other circuit courts — to the extent that the Tenth Circuit’s test dictates that an employer’s independent investigation into a biased supervisor’s recommendation automatically breaks the chain of causation in “cat’s paw” cases brought under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.