Engstrand v. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the ICRA is “patterned after Title VII” and noting that “Iowa courts characterize federal case law on Title VII as ‘instructive’ ”
• finding supervisor’s comment that employee was “old and ugly woman” and “stupid” to be stray remark and not age and gender discrimination
• finding no shifting reasons for termination where, of the twenty three reasons listed for plaintiffs dismissal in defendant’s first answer to plaintiffs interrogatories, sixteen remained and were encompassed in the scope of the amended answer
• “Mere speculation ‘does not create a genuine issue of fact; instead, it creates a false issue, the demolition of which is a primary goal of summary judgment.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).