Commonwealth v. Smith, W.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]he record ‘must permit the factfinder to conclude the employer’s retaliatory animus played a part in [the] adverse employment action.’ ”
• “[A]t the very heart of an unequal pay claim is the plaintiff’s burden to show unequal pay for equal work.”
• “Pretext is not just faulty reasoning or mistaken judgment on the part of the employer; it is a lie, specifically a phony reason for some action.” (cleaned up)
• “[W]hen analyzing whether a proffered reason is pretextual, ‘we do not evaluate whether [it] was accurate or even whether it was unfair. Our sole focus is on whether the employer’s stated reason can be characterized as a falsehood rather than an honestly held belief.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).