Brady v. Office of the Sergeant at Arms

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff must show both that the “employer’s asserted non-discriminatory reason was not the actual reason and that the employer intentionally discriminated” based on a protected characteristic
• holding that “there ordinarily is no 25 basis for permitting a jury to conclude that the employer is lying about the underlying facts” if the belief is reasonable
• holding that an employer’s proffered reason for its adverse employment action was not a pretext for discrimination because employer honestly and reasonably relied on independent investigation that confirmed employee’s misconduct
• holding that “the question whether the plaintiff in a disparate-treatment discrimination suit actually made out a prima facie case is almost always irrelevant when the district court considers an employer's motion for summary judgment”
• explaining that a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason may be contained in a declaration, deposition, or other testimony from the employer’s decisionmaker
• explaining that a legitimate, nondiseriminatory reason may be contained in a declaration, deposition, or other testimony from the employer’s decisionmaker

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).