Bryant v. Farmers Insurance Exchange

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• holding that, because plaintiff cast doubt on the employer’s dominant stated reason for her termination, “failure to address the other, less consequential reasons for her termination does not entitle Farmers to summary judgment”
• finding that “the mere calculation of an average of 103 numbers is not the sort of statistical determination which requires” special knowledge
• noting that “[w]e review a district court’s ruling on the admissibility of evidence for an abuse of discretion”
• stating that a declarant can establish personal knowledge by reviewing documents, even when the declarant did not create the documents
• ruling audit reports were ad- missible despite the witness “not know[ing] how these au- dits were performed, who performed the audits, or the methodology used in conducting these audits”
• stating after defendant provides nondiscriminatory reason for employment action, plaintiff bears “full burden of persuasion” to show that employer discriminated on illegal basis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).