Schaible v. Pike Place Market Preservation & Development Authority

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• indicating that any characteristic protected by Title VII is sufficient to satisfy the third element
• reiterating that the role of the qualification prong is “simply to help eliminate [] the most common nondiscriminatory reasons for the plaintiff’s” termination; “[i]t cannot be more than that.” (internal quotations omitted)
• treating plaintiffs termination as a sex discrimination claim, and not as a separate quid pro quo sexual harassment cause of action
• noting “the care exercised in this Circuit to avoid hastily dismissing complaints of civil rights violations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).