Jo Ann Leffel v. Valley Financial Services and Valley American Bank and Trust Company

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the question of whether a plaintiff was meeting her employer’s legitimate expectations “necessarily overlaps with the veracity of the performance-related reasons” her employer cited for terminating her
• explaining O’Connor v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp., 517 U.S. 308, 116 S.Ct. 1307, 134 L.Ed.2d 433 (1996)
• “[S]ureiy an employer does not have to wait until its bottom line is affected to discipline an employee whose work is found wanting.”
• also noting that the prima facie burdens “should not be applied rig- idly”
• explaining earlier parallel holding in Title VII context
• specifically adopting the McDoh-nell-Douglas framework for ADA cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).