Brown v. CSC Logic, Inc.

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• holding that discriminatory remarks count as direct evidence only if, among other things, they relate to the challenged employment decision
• concluding that “the facts in this particular case are not sufficiently egregious to overcome the [“same actor”] inference that [the defendant’s] stated reason for discharging [the plaintiff] was not pretext for age discrimination”
• stating that supervisor's isolated, remote in time, derogatory statement is not compelling evidence of discrimination
• stating that supervisor's isolated, remote in time, derogatory statement is not compelling evidence of discrimination
• inferring no age discrimination as the motive behind termination because the “same actor” responsible for hiring and firing was older that the plaintiff
• approving “same actor” inference that same actor’s involvement in both employee’s hiring and termination raises inference against discriminatory motive.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).