Peggy Blizzard v. Marion Technical College

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• holding that three separate statements that were individually too ambiguous and unrelated did not, in combination, establish pretext
• holding that the district court correctly held that purported age-related comments do not establish pretext because they were unrelated to the decision to dismiss the plaintiff
• holding that 'employer’s statements to the plaintiff that “most of the people here are the old people like you” and that another employee had “been in his job too long” were ambiguous because they could easily refer to tenure
• stating that the plaintiff must show that “age was the ‘but-for’ cause” of an “adverse action” taken against him by his employer
• explaining that bright-line rule “does not encroach on our precedent holding that eight years can be a significant age difference”
• explaining that “an employee may not invoke the protections of the Act by making a vague charge of discrimination”

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