Jennifer Hitchcock v. Angel Corps 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 a “supervisor’s immediate change in treatment towards [plaintiff] after learning of her pregnancy” evidenced a discriminatory animus
• noting that in cases where question is whether employer’s purported reason is pretextual, there is little difference between direct and indirect methods
• noting that shifting or inconsistent explanations for a decision can “create a reasonable inference that they do not reflect the real reason” for the decision
• noting that an employer’s “piling on additional ever-evolving justifications … may cause a reasonable juror to wonder whether [the employer] can ever get its story straight”
• noting that defendant’s “ever-evolving justifications” for employee’s termination were evidence of pretext
• reversing summary judgment; a reasonable jury could find pretext where explanation provided on employer’s official termination form was “so ludicrous that [employer] is not to be believed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).