/f3d/931/0786-01

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2019-07-30

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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/931/0786-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2019Judicial but-for standard for age-based treatmentnot
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.
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Evidence kind: fact; polarity: cuts-against; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

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.
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Evidence kind: fact; polarity: cuts-against; absent flag: 1; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

Accordingly, we affirm the district court's judgment that Heisler failed to meet her burden of production to show pretext.
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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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