Delores M. Brooks v. County Commission, Jefferson

How courts have described this case

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• affirming district court’s denial of summary judgment where plaintiff failed to show directly or indirectly that the defendant’s proffered reason was pretextual or unworthy of credence
• noting we are not concerned with an appellant’s “belie[f] that she was more qualified”
• stating the same in the context of a Title VII failure-to-promote claim
• A plaintiff has the burden of producing “sufficient evidence” for a reasonable factfinder to “conclude [defendant’s] articulated reasons were not believable.”
• summarily finding that employer’s proffered reason that the candidate was selected over the plaintiff was a sufficient nondiscriminatory reason for the employer’s decision
• “a plaintiff cannot prove pretext by simply arguing or even by showing that he was better, qualified than the officer who received the position he coveted”

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