Robert WALLACE, II, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SMC PNEUMATICS, INC., Defendant-Appellee

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• noting that discrimination cases would be fraught with uncertainty if de facto authority were allowed to trump de jure authority in many corporate settings
• stating that prejudice of employee may be imputed to decision maker if employee, by feeding false information, was able to influence decision
• observing that the plaintiff “must persuade the trier of fact that the true reason [for the adverse employment action] was a discriminatory one”
• reasoning that a formally subordinate employee should be treated as the decisionmaker where he “is the real cause of the adverse employment action”
• addressing a situation in which the employee \received generally favorable evaluations till shortly before he was fired\
• explaining that an American employee terminated by a Japanese company for botching a project had to demonstrate not just that the company did not fire a Japanese employee, but that the company did not fire a Japanese employee who had also botched a project

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