Marvin L. Fisher v. Pharmacia & Upjohn

How courts have described this case

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• noting that these types of discriminatory comments “constitute circumstantial evidence that, when considered together with other evidence,” may allow a jury to infer intentional discrimination
• holding a transfer to a less-prestigious unit and diminishment of title may constitute an adverse action
• observing that “the selling of product is the primary responsibility of a salesperson”
• to avoid summary judgment plaintiff must create issue of material fact as to pretext and create reasonable inference of discrimination
• managers’ statements included “[w]e need to get rid of the old guys” and the company “wanted to bring some of the younger people along faster”
• Reimer was the plaintiffs supervisor in 1995, who occasionally referred to the plaintiff as “the old guy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).