Michael Simpson v. Beaver Dam Community Hospitals

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court could consider a negative job reference “to show its effect on the state of mind of the hearer”
• holding that a negative reference from an anonymous staff member was not considered for its truth in employment discrimination case, but instead was offered for its effect on the employment decision-makers
• holding that a negative reference from the plaintiff’s former employer was not hearsay because it had been “considered not for its truth, but to show its effect on the state of mind” of the defendant in rejecting the plaintiff’s application
• “The question is not whether the employer’s stated reason was inaccurate or unfair, but whether the employer honestly believed the reasons it has offered to explain,its decision.”
• at summary judgment, evidence “must point directly to the conclusion that an employer was illegally motivated, without reliance on speculation”
• at summary judgment, evidence “must point directly to the conclusion that an employer was illegally motivated, without reliance on speculation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).