Kenneth D. Sandstad v. Cb Richard Ellis, Inc.

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 defendant is “entitled to be unreasonable so long as it does not act with discriminatory animus” and that “[m]erely disputing [the defendant’s] assessment of his performance will not create an issue of fact.”
• “The issue at the pretext stage is whether Appellee's reason, even if incorrect, was the real reason for Appellant's termination.”
• “Simply disputing the underlying facts of an employer’s decision is not sufficient to create an issue of pretext.”
• “Direct evidence is evidence that, if believed, proves the fact of discriminatory animus without inference or presumption.”
• “The definition of an interested witness cannot be so broad as to require us to disregard testimony from a company’s agents regarding the company’s reasons for discharging an employee.”
• “The definition of an interested witness cannot be so broad as to require us to disregard testimony from a company’s agents regarding the company’s reasons for discharging an employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).