Beeck v. Federal Express Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an allegation claiming that the plaintiff is old school is not the same as claiming that he was fired because he was old
• “Direct evidence does not include stray remarks in the workplace, even if made by decision-makers, where the remarks are unrelated to the decisional process itself.”
• “Direct evidence does not include stray remarks in the workplace, even if made by decision-makers, where the remarks are unrelated to the decisional process itself.”
• “To raise an inference of discrimination by showing that a younger person was favored, a plaintiff must point to a worker with a ‘significant’ or ‘substantial’ difference in age.”
• “[T]he mere suggestion that plaintiff consider retiring cannot be considered derogatory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).