Henry W. BIENKOWSKI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that comments requiring the employee to look “sharp” and criticizing an inability to adapt to new procedures constituted evidence of age discrimination
• noting that summary judgement is not precluded where plaintiff presents no significant evidence that she is qualified
• “Placing a plaintiffs ‘qualifications’ in issue at both the prima facie case and pretext stages of a termination case is an unnecessary redundancy.”
• noting, pre-O’Connor, that a five year age differential \does not legally preclude the possibility of discrimination against [the plaintiff]” and that \it is a close question whether he established a prima facie case”
• discussing the effect of replacement by another worker within the protected class on the prima facie case of age discrimination
• “Placing a plaintiff’s ‘qualifications’ in issue at both the prima facie case and pretext stages of a termination case is an unnecessary redundancy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).