Lee v. GTE Florida, 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 evidence showing that plaintiff was “clearly more qualified” in one area relevant for the job did not establish that employer’s decision to promote a different employee was pre- textual
• holding that “an employee attempt[ing] to prove pretext by showing she was substantially more qualified than the person promoted” requires evidence that the employee “was clearly more qualified for the position”
• rejecting as meaningless plaintiff’s evidence that decisionmaker had promoted only four women into management and only two women into staff positions because plaintiff provided no “specific context against which to measure these brief facts”
• explaining elements of failure to promote claim based on sex discrimination
• explaining elements of failure to promote claim based on sex discrimination
• “A plaintiff must show not merely that the defendant’s employment decisions were mistaken but that they were in fact motivated by sex”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).