Brenda Arnold, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Good Shepherd, Llc, Appellee/cross-Appellant

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• “finding that employees were required to show only that they were qualified for the job, not that they would excel or even meet reasonable expectations.”
• holding plaintiff was qualified as a licensed practical nurse because she had worked as a licensed practical nurse for a year before her discharge
• explaining that even when an employer makes an employment decision “upon a mistaken belief, the [plaintiff] still must offer some evidence that racial animus was at the root of the [employment decision]”
• “[a] plaintiff may make a sufficient showing of pretext by ... showing that an employer ... failed to follow its own policies”
• “the district court erred” in a race discrimination case “by requiring [plaintiff] to show that she performed her job satisfactorily instead of merely requiring her to show that she was qualified”
• “A plaintiff may make a sufficient showing of pretext by ... showing that an employer ... made substantial changes over time in its proffered reason for an employment decision.” (internal citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).