Benders v. Bellows and Bellows

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• holding that allegations that an employee’s termination was based on the owner’s desire to hide a past consensual relationship from his wife were “insufficient to support a cause of action for sex discrimination”
• observing that “a plaintiff can plead herself out of court by alleging facts that show she is not entitled to a judgment”
• if the plaintiff presents evidence establishing a prima facie case of retaliation, she can defeat a motion for summary judgment, unless the defendant presents unrebutted evidence that the plaintiff would have been fired even absent her protected activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).