Kimberly Barnes-Staples v. Robin Carnahan

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• finding that the plaintiff waived her sex discrimination claim under Title VII when she did not “develop” her argument before the district court by providing evidence or by illustrating specific unlawful conduct
• finding that the plaintiff waived her sex discrimination claim under Title VII when she did not “develop” her argument before the district court by providing evidence or by illustrating specific unlawful conduct
• finding that a plaintiff must show that an adverse employment action was “at least in part on account of sex” without reaching the issue of whether an intersectional theory of discrimination can be the basis for a viable claim
• finding no evidence of pretext where the purported policy violation “af- fected all candidates equally”
• “Nothing in the record suggests the [interviewers] thought anybody other than [the employee who was offered the job] was the best candidate at any point.”
• “If [the employer] honestly believed it made the correct employment decision—even if its decision was inaccurate, unfair, foolish, trivial, or baseless—[plaintiff's] claims cannot succeed.”

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