State of Tennessee v. Lashonda Moneak Williamson

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• holding that multiple employees were subject to discipline by the “same decision makers” where their separate supervisors all “reported to [one] [d]irector” and “were subject to the decisional authority of the . . . [h]uman [r]esources department”
• noting that plaintiff may demonstrate pretext by showing “the employer’s better treatment of similarly situated employees outside the plaintiff’s protected group”
• explaining that plaintiff may introduce comparator evidence as a means to “discredit [Defendant’s non-discriminatory] justification for her termination”
• finding that a jury could reasonably conclude that nurses working in the same or a comparable unit as the plaintiff were similarly situated to the plaintiff
• \Showing that others outside the plaintiff's class have been more favorably treated is '[e]specially relevant' to a demonstration of pretext.\ (quoting McDonnell Douglas , 411 U.S. at 804 , 93 S.Ct. 1817 )
• explaining that evidence of “employer’s better treatment of similarly situated employees outside the plaintiff’s protected group” may support inference that employer’s stated reasons for adverse employment action were pretextual

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