Petts v. Rockledge Furniture LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff’s own reliance on relative qualifications is insufficient to show pretext
• finding that three months was not contemporaneous
• “[The plaintiff] also relies on her own assessment of [a comparator’s] qualifications as against her own, but this is insufficient to show pretext.”
• \We previously have concluded that a … comment made more than a year before the adverse action fails to constitute evidence of discrimination under the direct method.\
• negative comments about women made by male assistant manager who had no supervisory authority over female counterpart were not evidence of Title VII discrimination absent showing as to their timing and connection to decision to terminate female manager’s employment
• “A pretext is a deliberate falsehood.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).