Smith v. Stratus Computer, Inc.

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• holding that plaintiff's failure to adduce evidence that maker of statement made or influenced personnel decision rendered comment irrelevant to issue of discriminatory animus
• holding that plaintiff's failure to adduce evidence that maker of statement made or influenced personnel decision rendered comment irrelevant to issue of discriminatory animus
• holding that the district court correctly interpreted Hicks when it ruled that plaintiff had to adduce evidence sufficient to support a finding of the employer’s stated reason was not only a pretext, but that it was a pretext for illegal discrimination
• finding for “meaningful comparison” because plaintiff was a vice president her treatment must be compared to that of other terminated or transferred male executives
• stating in a Title VII discrimination case that a plaintiff is not entitled to relief where she “has been discharged unfairly, even by the most irrational of managers, unless the facts and circumstances indicate that discriminatory animus was the reason for the decision”
• stating in a disparate treatment case that the colleagues to whom the plaintiff compares herself must be similar to the plaintiff in every material respect and because the plaintiff could not demon- strate the same flaws in her comparators, she could not prove pretext

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