Charles Flowers v. Troup County, Georgia, School District

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• recognizing that establishing the elements of the McDonnell-Douglas framework “is not, and was never intended to be, the sine que non for a plaintiff to survive a summary judgment motion”
• concluding that the plaintiff’s discrimination claims lacked merit because he failed to present “any evidence, outside of his own con- clusory say-so, that would support an inference of . . . discrimina- tion from the circumstances”
• noting that both the employee’s burden at the prima facie stage and the employer’s burden at the legitimate, non-discriminatory reason stage are “low bar[s] to hurdle”
• noting that plaintiff’s only evidence touching on race was that he was first black football coach, which, without more, was insufficient to show causal connection between his race and termination
• explaining that “evidence [that] at most might support an inference that [reason offered] may have been pretext of something” is not evidence that reason “was pretext of discrimination” based on protected classification
• listing the elements of a prima-facie case in the context of a Title VII race-discrimination claim

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