Lake v. Yellow Transportation, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that an employee establishes a prima facie case if, “setting aside [the employer’s] reason for firing” the employee, that individual was “otherwise meeting expectations or otherwise qualified.”
• identifying a failure to follow its own policies as one possible method of showing employer’s pretext
• noting pretext can be shown by demonstrating an employer failed to follow its own policies, disparate treatment, or a changing explanation of an employment decision
• setting aside the employer’s reasons for firing plaintiff and determining whether plaintiff was “otherwise meeting expectations or otherwise qualified”
• noting that policy violations can support inference of pretext
• “A plaintiff may show pretext, among other ways, by showing that an employer ... treated similarly-situated employees in a disparate manner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).