Patricia McCarthy Tomassi v. Insignia Financial Group, Inc. And Insignia Residential Group, Inc., Metlife, Inc., Docket No. 05-6219-Cv

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• holding that more remote and oblique remarks are in relation to adverse action, less they prove discriminatory motivation
• holding that the more remote and oblique remarks are in relation to adverse action, the less they prove discriminatory motivation
• holding that remarks by someone other than a decision maker \may have little tendency to show that the decision-maker was motived by the discriminatory sentiment expressed in the remark\
• stating that comment is probative insofar as it demonstrates that adverse action is motivated by discriminatory intent
• explaining that the “relevance of discrimination-related remarks” depends on “their tendency to show that the decision-maker was motivated by assumptions or attitudes relating to the protected class”
• holding remarks by someone other than decision maker “may have little tendency to show that the decision-maker was motived by the discriminatory sentiment expressed in the remark”

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