In the Interest of T.E., a Child v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding an employer’s offer to settle a wrongful termination suit was inadmissible to rebut an allegation the plaintiff failed to mitigate damages
• finding that, when employer set forth specific facts related to poor performance that it stated it relied on in terminating employee, it provided a legitimate, nondiscriminatory explanation for the termination
• stating that poor performance is a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for discharge
• requiring that evidentiary errors be prejudicial in order to warrant reversal
• evidence of a compromise offer was not admissible under Rule 408(b) to show a failure to mitigate damages because such a purpose “goes to the amount of the claim”
• “An employee's opinion that he did not perform poorly is irrelevant to establishing pretext where the employer reasonably relied on specific facts before it indicating that the employee's performance was poor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).