Robert F. Byrnie v. Town of Cromwell, Board of Education, Body Corporate Cromwell Board of Education Body Corporate

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• holding that rejection of plaintiff in favor of significantly younger applicant, who was also over forty, can support an inference of age discrimination
• holding that ..the fact that the defendant had not “asserted that [its] destruction was merely accidental” was “evidence of intentional destruction sufficient to show a culpable state of mind”
• concluding that the defendants’ promise to make available destroyed information suggests that that information existed at the time the promise was made
• holding that simply “gesturing toward the hiring process as a whole” will not suffice
• concluding that the employer’s explanation that it made its hiring decision based on interview performances is sufficient to shift burden to plaintiff to show that the explanation is a pretext
• concluding that the employer’s explanation that it made its hiring decision based on interview performances is sufficient to shift burden to plaintiff to show that the explanation is a pretext

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