Dolores J. Fuka v. Thomson Consumer Electronics

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• noting that performance deficiencies can defeat the second element of the prima facie case and also can represent the employer’s legitimate justification for its employment decision, then turning to question of whether plaintiff met his burden of showing pretext
• distinguishing between the subject of the discriminatory comments— the employer’s alleged hiring preferences — and the employment decision at issue in the case: the employer’s termination practices
• finding no inference of discrimination where plaintiffs supervisor stated that he had a preference for “young people fresh out of college” and stated “[n]o, I don’t want older people, we want young people we can mold”
• “[Kjnowledge of an injury and its cause does not necessarily imply that any wrongdoing has occurred or that anyone is to blame.”
• to serve as circumstantial evidence, remarks may only be taken as evidence of discrimination if the plaintiff can show that the remarks “were related to the employment decision in question”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).