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How courts have described this case

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• reversing district court’s finding of discrimination even though plaintiff demonstrated a prima facie case of discrimination at trial
• “[T]he employer need not persuade the court that he was actually motivated by the reason he gives and the mere articulation of the reason rebuts the prima facie case and puts the onus back on the plaintiff to prove pretext.”
• A [T]he employer need not persuade the court that he was actually motivated by the reason he gives and the mere articulation of the reason rebuts the prima facie case and puts the onus back on the plaintiff to prove pretext. @
• “But this alone cannot derail the plaintiff’s case at this stage, because anytime an employer fired or demoted someone (as in every Title VII case of this kind), it would prove that the employee was not meeting expectations; the requirement, then, would be meaningless.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).