Agugliaro v. Brooks Bros., Inc.

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• holding that even assuming allegations against plaintiff were false, summary judgment was nevertheless appropriate because the decisionmaker believed the allegations in good faith and fired plaintiff on that basis, not on the basis of plaintiffs age, gender, or pension status
• dismissing plaintiffs age discrimination claim, in part, because “plaintiff admitted at his deposition that he could present no facts to show that ... the critical person involved in making the decision to fire plaintiffi ] did not actually believe that he had engaged in sexual conduct”
• when presented with defendant’s “specific recollection” and “plaintiffs lack of recollection of what he said at the first meeting,” reasonable jury “could only” accept defendant’s account of the meeting
• ‘‘Even assuming defendants were wrong in their belief that plaintiff had engaged in sexual misconduct, what is significant is that they based their decision to dismiss plaintiff on that belief, and not on his age, gender or pension status.”
• “Even assuming defendants were wrong in their belief that plaintiff had engaged in sexual misconduct, what is significant is that they based their decision to dismiss plaintiff on that belief, and not on his age, gender, or pension status.”
• ʺEven assuming defendants were wrong in their belief that plaintiff had engaged in sexual misconduct, what is significant is that they based their decision to dismiss plaintiff on that belief, and not on his age, gender or pension status.ʺ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).