Robert C. PIERCE, Appellant, v. John O. MARSH, Secretary of the Army, Appellee

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• reviewing plaintiff's and successful candidate's qualifications to evaluate employer's \more qualified\ defense
• “The mere existence of comparable qualities between two applicants . . . alone does not raise an inference of . . . discrimination.”
• “The mere existence of comparable qualifications between two applicants . . . alone does not raise an inference of racial discrimination.”
• “Even if these subjective reasons could be rejected on credibility grounds, such a rejection of that evidence would not add anything to the lack of a showing of pretext by [plaintiff].”
• \. . . Pierce failed to provide any evidence from which a rational trier of fact could infer that the selecting committee's articulated nondiscriminatory reason for hiring Webb over Pierce was overcome by any evidence establishing that reason as pretextual.\
• “... Pierce failed to provide any evidence from which a rational trier of fact could infer that the selecting committee’s articulated nondiscriminatory reason for hiring Webb over Pierce was overcome by any evidence establishing that reason as pretextual.”

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