Allen v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an employer’s determination that the plaintiff’s interview “did not go well” was subjective, yet an “entirely proper” ba- sis for the hiring decision
• finding that consideration of the plaintiff’s interview performance was “entirely proper,” given no evidence suggesting that the plaintiff’s membership in a protected class influenced the hir- ing decision
• explaining that “identifying an incon- sistency (or even a lie
• explaining that “identifying an incon- sistency (or even a lie
• “identifying an inconsistency (or even a lie) is not necessarily sufficient to prove that the employer’s rationale was pretext for discrimination”
• fact that plaintiff’s interview “did not go well” was subjective de- termination yet “entirely proper, especially given the absence of anything in the record suggesting that considerations of [the plaintiff’s membership in a protected class] influenced” the hiring decision

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