Brunner v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• granting summary judgment for defendant where plaintiff failed to offer sufficient evidence to carry the burden of persuasion on employer’s discriminatory motive
• “where motive, intent, or other state of mind questions are at issue, summary judgment is often inappropriate”
• summary judgment for defendant where plaintiff failed to offer evidence sufficient to carry burden of persuasion on employer’s discriminatory motive
• in an employment discrimination case, evidence of the bias of the decision-maker may be essential to proof of discrimination
• summary judgment was appropriate where the plaintiff had not rebutted legitimate business reasons, including decline in the workload, proffered by the defendant
• where motive, intent or state of mind questions are at issue, summary judgment is often inappropriate because they are factual questions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).