Casell Randle, George Austin and Holmes Communications v. Lasalle Telecommunications, Inc., D/B/A Chicago Cable Tv

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• holding that “direct evidence, if believed by the trier of fact, will prove the particular fact in question without reliance upon inference or presumption”
• declining to find evidence of discrimination in statement when it was “simply not possible to tell whether the statement was racially motivated”
• “by definition, direct evidence, if believed by the trier of fact, will prove the particular fact in question without reliance upon inference or presumption”
• “Direct evidence would include statements by the employer to the employee that s/he was being fired because of age.”
• “It is well settled that the methods and order of proof applicable to a claim of disparate treatment under Title VII are equally availing under § 1981.”
• direct evidence must “speak directly to the issue of discriminatory intent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).