Roland Stalter v. Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated

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• recognizing that pretext can be established by showing that employer’s asserted reasons were insufficient to motivate the adverse employment action
• finding that “grossly excessive” punishment for alleged infraction “cast[s] doubt on [employer’s] true motive.”
• finding that “grossly excessive” punishment for alleged infraction “cast[s] doubt on [employer’s] true motive.”
• explaining that a jury could find employer’s stated reason pretex-tual where the conduct violating the company code of conduct was distinguishable from the conduct of other employee’s punished under the same provision
• questioning the sincerity of an employer’s stated reason when “the punishment of termi- nation was grossly excessive in light of the alleged infraction of eating a handful of taco chips”
• noting record evidence that plaintiff might have thought bag of chips had been abandoned

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