United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2019-08-13
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: appeal from summary judgment for employer; result: claimant-lost; claim:
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| /f3d/934/0447-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2019 | Judicial but-for standard for age-based treatment | not Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: no-evidence The employer’s reduction in force does not automatically defeat an age claim. The selected evidence addresses the remark’s context and lack of connection to the decisionmaker. | reduction-in-force/retirement-reference-without-decision-link | Between 2014 and 2018, the defendants, Transocean Offshore Deepwater et al., reduced their offshore fleet by 59%.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0447-01; Unicode character offsets [30:143] (end exclusive); SHA-256 62ed31abd3cdc9f89edbacbe3cc8eec107e92aa53ae9b66a666acec6dbb84908.And no other evidence shows, or even suggests, that Owen had any influence over the decision to terminate McMichael.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0447-01; Unicode character offsets [20860:20976] (end exclusive); SHA-256 62ed31abd3cdc9f89edbacbe3cc8eec107e92aa53ae9b66a666acec6dbb84908.Because we agree that McMichael failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact, we AFFIRM.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0447-01; Unicode character offsets [893:985] (end exclusive); SHA-256 62ed31abd3cdc9f89edbacbe3cc8eec107e92aa53ae9b66a666acec6dbb84908. |