Ruben Estes v. Dick Smith Ford, Inc.

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• holding that the exclusion of an employer's prior discriminatory acts deprived the employee of a fair chance to prevail before a jury in a wrongful termination claim
• indicating that evidence of prior acts should normally be freely admitted where the issue is motive
• mentioning that evidence of an employer’s past discriminatory acts may not be probative where the employees involved in the improper activity were unconnected with the employees who discriminated against the complainant
• concluding the district court abused its discretion in excluding circumstantial evidence of the employer’s discriminatory animus, including statistics about how often the employer hired and promoted black employees
• indicating that evidence of prior acts should normally be freely admitted where the issue is motive
• noting that \circumstantial proof of discrimination typically includes unflattering testimony about the employer's history and work practices\

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