Janet M. Merillat v. Metal Spinners, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plaintiff’s supervisor was not a comparator because he had company-wide and supervisory tasks that she did not
• explaining that title is not decisive in a case comparing jobs with different titles
• affirming summary judgment for employer because plaintiff failed to establish pretext, even though most of her duties were absorbed by a younger employee
• “[S]ocializing with someone who is not a member of a protected class does not demonstrate bias against those who are in a protected class.”
• comparing a “Purchase Manager” and “Senior Buyer” to a “Vice President of Procurement and Materials Management”
• Showing under prong 4 of the McDonnell Douglas test is satisfied “when a plaintiff demonstrates that the duties of the terminated worker have been absorbed by retained workers outside of the protected class.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).