Peter W. SHORETTE, Sr., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. RITE AID OF MAINE, INC., Defendant, Appellee

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• holding that repeated statements that “you have a perfect case of age discrimination” by an employee’s supervisor were not direct evidence of discrimination, where that supervisor disavowed any participation in the decision to demote the employee
• rejecting age discrimination claim where district manager had asked plaintiff \how old he was and when he planned to retire\
• rejecting plaintiffs evidence of discrimination because it is “entirely compatible with the nondiscriminatory rationale offered by [defendant].”
• asking plaintiff “how old he was and when he planned to retire” was “a textbook example of an isolated remark which demonstrates nothing” regarding defendant’s intent
• “ ‘[Statements by nondecisionmakers, or statements by deci-sionmakers unrelated to the decisional process itself normally are insufficient to prove [an] employer’s discriminatory animus.”
• motivations or remarks of those who lack hiring and firing authority over the plaintiff cannot form the basis for an employment discrimination claim absent a hostile work environment claim

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