Otha Wheeler v. Aventis Pharmaceuticals

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• stating the standard to be “whether the employees are involved in . . . the same or similar conduct and are disciplined in different ways.”
• employees are similarly situated when they are involved in or are accused of same conduct, and are disciplined differently
• employees' misconduct, which involved sexually offensive comments and gestures, was not the same as plaintiff's, which involved offensive sexual contact
• test whether employees are similarly situated is rigorous at pretext stage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).