Gary E. Wallis, Husband Carol Wallis, Wife v. J.R. Simplot Company

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• holding that a plaintiff may not defeat summary judgment merely by denying the credibility of the defendant’s proffered reason for the challenged employment action
• holding that the same evidence that the plaintiff introduced to establish a prima facie case can be used to show that the employer's articulated reason is pretextual
• holding that a prima facie case may be based on direct evidence or on a presumption that arises when the four-part showing under the McDonnell Douglas framework is made
• holding that, regarding a motion to reconsider, \[e]vidence is not newly discovered if it was in the party's possession at the time of summary judgment or could have been discovered with reasonable diligence\
• concluding that on summary judgment, “[t]he requisite degree of proof necessary to estab- lish a prima facie case . . . is minimal and does not even need to rise to the level of a preponderance of the evidence”
• noting that a trial court is under no obligation to consider evidence that was either in the parties' possession at the time of summary judgment or could have been discovered with reasonable diligence

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