United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2019-07-30
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: appeal from summary judgment for employer; result: claimant-lost; claim:
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| /f3d/931/0786-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2019 | Judicial but-for standard for age-based treatment | not Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: no-evidence The court applies the ADEA but-for requirement and finds insufficient pretext evidence. This annotation is the ADEA component; Title VII/state-law components are not treated as identical legal standards. | pretext/inadequate-qualification-comparison | But there is evidence of awkward interviews and some unsavvy conduct, which is at least an arguable basis for Nationwide's purported motives.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_931.jsonl#/f3d/931/0786-01; Unicode character offsets [29089:29230] (end exclusive); SHA-256 bd7d6abcc578d40db50a1a656b87abe9556b06a3f8b2abc86266be2f2a7da446.She needed to use the qualifications comparison evidence to prove pretext, and she did not introduce enough evidence to meet her burden in that way.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_931.jsonl#/f3d/931/0786-01; Unicode character offsets [29231:29379] (end exclusive); SHA-256 bd7d6abcc578d40db50a1a656b87abe9556b06a3f8b2abc86266be2f2a7da446.Accordingly, we affirm the district court's judgment that Heisler failed to meet her burden of production to show pretext.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_931.jsonl#/f3d/931/0786-01; Unicode character offsets [29380:29502] (end exclusive); SHA-256 bd7d6abcc578d40db50a1a656b87abe9556b06a3f8b2abc86266be2f2a7da446. |