Bennett v. Saint-Gobain Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that when it comes to employer discipline, “what counts is what the decisionmaker . . . believed”
• holding plaintiff may not rely exclusively “on bald assertions, unsupported conclusions, or optimistic surmises” to defeat summary judgment
• addressing under third step of McDonnell Douglas inquiry argument that ADEA plaintiff did not actually engage in misconduct
• affirming denial of reconsideration where newly - 44 - raised evidence, even if considered, \would not have affected the bottom-line result\
• noting, in the employment context, that discriminatory comments made by a non-decisionmaker were \nothing more than stray remarks . . . . insufficient to block summary judgment\
• rejecting a litigant’s characterization of evidence as newly discovered and determining that “it is clear from the plaintiff’s own admissions that the additional evidence was merely newly proffered, not newly discovered.”

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