Greg Little v. Illinois Department of Revenue, Illinois Gaming Board, Glen Bower, Individually and as Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue

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• recognizing that a plaintiff could succeed by showing that the employer's reliance on a \report was so unreasonable as to create the inference that [the supervisor] subjectively did not believe the report's conclusions\
• recognizing that a plaintiff could succeed by showing that the employer’s reliance on a “report was so unreasonable as to create the inference that [the supervisor] subjectively did not believe the report’s conclusions”
• noting that an employee who worked for the IGB was, for the purposes of Title VII, also an employee of the IDOR
• explaining that discipline from a different supervisor “sheds no light” on the disciplinary decision
• holding, based on an interview transcript, that no reasonable jury could “conclude that [the employer] did not honestly believe … that [the plaintiff] refused to answer questions about” the offense for which he was terminated
• rejecting the invitation to adopt the Sixth Circuit’s articulation of the honest-belief rule, noting that the indirect method of proving unlawful discrimination “is, after all, a means of proving intentional discrimination”

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