Harriet Schoonmaker v. Spartan Graphics Leasing, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “Pease [the decisionmaker] 2Schutter testified that, in addition to Van Ryn, she told numerous coworkers at Zeigler that she was pregnant. (ECF No. 48-4 at PageID.269–70.
• finding an absence of pretext when an employee was terminated “because she seemed to present more personnel problems” than the comparator
• when considering RIF that eliminate two of five employees, holding that “such a small statistical sample is not probative of discrimination”
• An employee’s “subjective views in relation to other coworkers, without more, are insufficient to establish discrimination.”
• “[A plaintiffs] subjective views in relation to other coworkers, without more, are insufficient to establish discrimination.”
• “This court has held that an employer’s shifting rationale can be evidence of pretext.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).