Peter S. Helland v. South Bend Community School Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• “Because a Title VII claim requires intentional discrimina- tion, the pretext inquiry focuses on whether the employer’s stated reason was honest, not whether it was accurate.”
• describing termination for proselytizing as a “legitimate nondiscriminatory reason! ]”
• “[T]the pretext inquiry focuses on whether the employer’s stated reason was honest, not whether it was accurate. ‘Pretext means a lie, specifically a phony reason for some action.’” (ellipses omitted) (quoting Russell v. Acme-Evans Co., 51 F.3d 64, 68 (7th Cir. 1995)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).