Smith v. Chamber of Commerce of United States

How courts have described this case

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• “[Pjlaintiffs employers were entitled to rely on reports of plaintiffs performance given by his immediate supervisor ... and by others familiar with his work.”
• “ ‘[flaking as true that appellant was unaware ... of the dissatisfaction with his performance, ... [is] no basis for an inference of discrimination' ”
• “plaintiff must prove that age made a difference in the employer’s decision in the sense that ‘but for’ the discriminatory motive, the employee would have been retained”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).