Pamela J. Jordan v. Lawrence H. Summers, Secretary, Department of the Treasury

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• holding that public employees have no claim against the EEO office of their employer agency for failure to process a discrimination claim
• holding that plaintiffs have no claim against their employer agency EEO office for failing to process a discrimination claim
• concluding that the fact that one panel member rated the plaintiff as \excellent\ does not prove pretext, but merely that the other panel members were mistaken
• concluding that a federal employee had no cause of action under Title VII to bring a claim against the EEOC for its failure to process her discrimination complaint
• holding that an em- ployer’s reasons for terminating an employee may be “mis- taken, ill considered or foolish”, but “so long as [the em- ployer] honestly believed those reasons pretext has not been shown.”
• noting that an employer’s reasons for taking an adverse action may be “mistaken, ill considered, or foolish” so long as the employer “honestly believed” those reasons

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