Bennett William WAGGONER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF GARLAND, TEXAS, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that remarks such as “a younger person could do faster work” do not establish pretext
• holding that supervisor’s statements that plaintiff was an “old fart” and that a younger person could do the work better was insufficient to establish an age discrimination claim
• holding in discrimination cases that “the inquiry is limited to whether the employer believed the allegation in good faith and whether the decision to discharge the employee was based on that belief”
• holding in discrimination cases that \the inquiry is limited to whether the employer believed the allegation in good faith and whether the decision to discharge the employee was based on that belief\
• explaining that, since bad faith is the issue, “[t]o the extent that Waggoner’s summary judgment evidence relates to his innocence of the sexual harassment charge, it is irrelevant”
• explaining that a supervisor’s dislike of an employee is not relevant to the employee’s discrimination claim if there is no evidence that “connect[s]” that dislike to the employee’s protected class

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