LeFaivre v. United States

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• holding that plaintiff failed to prove that given reason for her discharge was pretextual where plaintiff failed to prove she was similarly situated with three male postal workers from a different post office with different supervisors than plaintiff
• noting that establishing a prima facie case of sex discrimination requires showing that proffered comparators had “similar work histor[ies]” to the complainant
• falsifying data on employment application satisfies second stage of the McDonnell Douglas framework
• “To establish a prima facie case of sex discrimination, Jones must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that she was discharged under ‘circumstances which give rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination.’ ” (citation omitted)

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