Paul J. Hoffman v. McA Inc.

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• holding that for summary judgment, Court must assume that any discriminatory intent on the supervisor's part tainted the decisionmaker's decision, making the supervisor's remarks relevant to proving that the decisionmaker's decision was unlawful
• holding that an employer’s call for “fresh legs” in the office “could have been talking about hiring additional personnel, not replacing” the plaintiff and “is too vague for [the court] to read it as inculpating” the defendant
• noting that an employer “could reasonably expect a higher level of professionalism from [a seasoned employee] with less need for supervision than it could expect from less experienced and lower-ranking sales representatives”
• “Standing alone, however, [age-related] statements [not directly related to the employment decision] are insufficient to establish pretext.”
• “[E]ven taking the statement to mean ‘we need a young person in Chicago’ we cannot say that the statement is linked to the decision to fire Hoffman.”
• supervisor’s discriminatory animus tainted decisionmaker since supervisor wrote series of memoranda about plaintiff

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