Kenneth R. THORNLEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PENTON PUBLISHING, INC., Defendant-Appellant

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a “plaintiff must satisfy the employer’s honestly-held expectations.”
• “The jury is certainly entitled to reject the standards claimed by the employer on the grounds that these standards were pretextual — i.e., they were not held in good faith.”
• \We think it appropriate to give guidance on certain issues that may arise again on retrial.\
• “employee[s] may be discharged on the basis of subjective business judgments, for any reason that is not discriminatory”
• satisfactory job performance is determined using the employer’s criteria, and not some hypothetical objective standard
• the employer’s standards control the hiring decision, not those of the plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).