Loudermilk v. Best Pallet Co., LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that conflicting testimony by the plaintiff and his supervisor as to whether the supervisor read the plaintiff's note raised a genuine issue as to the supervisor’s knowledge of the note’s contents
• reversing summary judgment where employer claimed it fired plaintiff for taking photographs at workplace to support his claims of discrimination
• “Deciding when the inference is appropriate cannot be resolved by a legal rule; the answer depends on context.”
• reversing summary judgment where employer claimed it fired plaintiff for taking photographs at workplace to support his claims of discrimination
• reversing summary judgment; “an employer who ad- vances a fishy reason takes the risk that disbelief of the reason will support an inference that it is a pretext for discrimina- tion”
• \[A]n employer who advances a fishy reason takes the risk that disbelief of the reason will support an inference that it is a pretext for discrimination.\

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