Riley v. Lance, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that a plaintiff was qualified for their job when they had been satisfactorily completing their job duties
• determining plaintiff was otherwise qualified for a position because he had been performing the position successfully for years
• explaining prima facia is met when a similarly situated but “substantially younger” individual was treated differently than Plaintiff
• “Since he had been performing the DAM job successfully for years, he met the requirement of the prima facie case.”
• Eighth Circuit found that plaintiff satisfied second element because “he had been performing [his] job successfully for years[.]”
• “[The plaintiff’s] attempt to justify his failure [to meet the employer’s requirements] does not create a genuine issue as to the legitimacy of the requirement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).