Lee v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.

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• explaining that employees’ track records must be comparable, but they “need not comprise the identical number of identical infractions”
• noting that an employee is not appropriate comparator if the relevant personnel decisions were “too remote in time from” each one
• providing that employees with different supervisors, different work responsibilities, or dissimilar violations are generally inappropriate comparators
• noting that employees are generally not similarly situated if they have different supervisors, different work responsibilities, or work for different divisions of a company
• stating that “[e]ach employee’s track record at the company need not comprise the identical number of identical infractions, albeit these records must be comparable”
• finding that because Plaintiff proffered a satisfactory comparator, he established a prima facie case of the Title VII discrimination

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