Kieron Alexander v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding a district manager’s successor was not a similarly situated employee
• explaining pretext may be shown by presenting evidence that the employer “treated similarly-situated employees in a disparate manner” which is a “rigorous” standard
• stating one way to show pretext “is by demonstrating that the employer’s stated reason for the termination is false”
• finding no pretext in race discrimination case where plaintiff failed to provide any evidence of other similarly situated employees
• “[W]ithout more, an ‘interval of more than two months is too long to support an inference of causation.’”
• § 1981 - a causal relationship exists where the desire to retaliate was the but-for cause of the adverse action.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).