Rayford C. PACE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that the plaintiffs statistical evidence was insufficient to establish pattern or practice of discrimination because the plaintiff failed to contextualize the data
• affirming summary judgment in favor of employer where employee was replaced by someone two years younger
• finding statistics-based on the fact that ten of the twelve demoted employees were over forty-to be flawed because there was no evidence regarding whether or not a substantial majority of the employee pool from which the twelve employees were selected were over forty
• sample with 11 worker reassignments and 12 demotions found by district court to be too small
• “A plaintiff, when faced with a motion for summary judgment, cannot rely on attenuated possibilities that a jury would infer a discriminatory motive[.]”
• plaintiff has burden of “presenting such statistical evidence that will ... give rise to an inference of discrimination.”

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