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· 4/3/1998

Nichols v. Lewis Grocer

Citations

  • 138 F.3d 563
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 6630
  • 73 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 45,349
  • 77 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1555
  • 1998 WL 153261

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that losing applicant’s longer tenure with the company did not make her “clearly better qualified” than the winning applicant
  • explaining that losing applicant’s longer tenure and more varied work experience with the company did not make her “clearly better qualified” than the winning applicant
  • “A subjective belief of discrimination, however genuine, cannot be the basis of judicial relief.”

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Judges: Wisdom, Higginbotham, Stewart

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