/f3d/934/0447-01

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2019-08-13

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Case and law context

29 U.S.C. §§ 621–634

Role: applied; posture: appeal from summary judgment for employer; result: claimant-lost; claim:

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CaseElementHolding and scopeVariantExact source quotations
/f3d/934/0447-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2019Judicial but-for standard for age-based treatmentnot
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%.
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Evidence kind: fact; polarity: cuts-against; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

And no other evidence shows, or even suggests, that Owen had any influence over the decision to terminate McMichael.
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Evidence kind: fact; polarity: cuts-against; absent flag: 1; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

Because we agree that McMichael failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact, we AFFIRM.
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Evidence kind: held; polarity: not recorded; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

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