Denise Coleman v. Patrick R. Donaho

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• recognizing that more favorable treatment of similarly situated employees outside of the plaintiff’s protected class can be evidence of pretext
• holding that “evidence of suspicious timing and pretext” together “are sufficient to withstand summary judgment”
• recognizing that more favorable treatment of similarly situated employees outside of the plaintiff’s protected class can be evidence of pretext
• holding that plaintiffs must show that similarly situated employees “(1) ‘dealt with the same supervisor,’ (2) ‘were subject to the same standards,’ and (3) ‘engaged in similar conduct’”
• holding that in the similarly situated analysis, whether employees were treated more favorably by the same decisionmaker is more important than whether they all had the same supervisor
• concluding that the plaintiff’s pro- posed comparators—who received more favorable treatment despite “br[eaking] the same rule that [the plaintiff] allegedly did”—were similar enough to permit a reasonable inference of discrimination

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