Elizabeth Castro v. DeVry University, Inc.

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• holding that filing a complaint with a human resources manager constituted protected activity
• holding that a reasonable trier of fact could not find that a supervisor influenced termination decisions where there was no evidence that he had any input in the decisions to terminate plaintiffs
• holding that a post-deposition declaration did not contradict testimony when deponent was “not asked whether he had described all the inaccuracies with the written statement” and his declaration identified further inaccuracies
• noting that an employer’s “flux in terminology” is not evidence of pretext where different explanations focused on “same underlying conduct”
• cautioning that the sham-affidavit rule “must be applied with great care ... because summary judgment is not a tool for deciding questions of credibility”
• explaining that the plaintiff must “undermine the honesty” of the defendant’s stated explanation to establish pretext in the retaliation context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).