Paula Blise v. John M. Antaramian, Steve Stanczak, Nick E. Arnold

How courts have described this case

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• holding that subjective decisionmaking plays an important and legitimate role in employment decisions
• recognizing subjective reasons can be important in assessing who is best qualified for a position
• noting that even if selectee were disqualified due to his lack of qualifications, that would not change the outcome because plaintiff was not the next-highest scoring candidate
• recognizing subjective evaluations of a job applicant are often critical to the decision-making process
• finding that an interview scored based on subjective criteria was not evidence of pretext
• stating that “an employer’s decision to favor one candidate over another can be “mistaken, ill-considered or foolish, [but] so long as [the employer] honestly believed those reasons, pretext has not been shown.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).