Guarionex Lopez v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court: CC-17-521)

How courts have described this case

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• stating that under Reeves “a plaintiff may withstand a motion for summary judgment without adducing additional, independent evidence” of discrimination or retaliation
• determining summary judgment was improper where the plaintiff produced evidence that the employer’s explanation for her non-selection had been inconsistent
• finding a fact issue on pretext because, among other evidence, employer’s explanation for non-selection was contradicted by employee’s recent job evaluation
• requiring “a causal connection . . . between the protected activity and the adverse employment action”
• “[A] factfinder may infer the ultimate fact of retaliation from the falsity of the explanation.”
• “We agree that [t]he ultimate burden of persuading the trier of fact that the defendant [retaliated] against the plaintiff remains at all times with the plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).