Silverman v. Board of Educ. of City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• stating that circumstantial evidence that the employer’s offered justification for an adverse employment action is pretextual could permit a reasonable jury to infer the employer’s discriminatory intent
• stating that circumstantial evidence that the employer’s offered justification for an adverse employment action is pretextual could permit a reasonable jury to infer the employer’s discriminatory intent
• “Mere temporal proximity is not enough to establish a genuine issue of material fact.” (quotation omitted)
• “Pretext is more than just faulty reasoning or mistaken judgment on the part of the employer; it is a lie, specifically a phony reason for some action.”
• “Pretext is more than just faulty reasoning or mistaken judgment on the part of the employer; it is a lie, specifically a phony reason for some action.”
• overruled on other grounds by Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., 834 F.3d 760 (7th Cir. 2016) (Filing an EEOC charge is “the most obvious form of statutorily protected activity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).