Gates v. Caterpillar, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a similarly situated employee is one who is “comparable to the plaintiff in all material respects” (emphasis in original)
• concluding that plaintiff’s limited information on comparators was “too vague to allow this Court to determine whether Gates and the men are ‘similarly situated’ ”
• Stating that job performance is measured “through the eyes of her supervisors” at the time of the adverse employment action.
• noting that “[t]he proper inquiry mandates looking at [the employee’s] job performance through the eyes of her supervisors at the time of her . . . termination”
• affirming district court’s dismissal of discrimination claim because the plaintiff was unable to meet either the second or fourth prongs of the McDonnell Douglas test
• affirming district court’s dismissal of discrimination claim because the plaintiff was unable to meet either the second or fourth prongs of the McDonnell Douglas test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).