T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co. v. Peoples Natural Gas Co.

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• reasoning that the “manager rule” has “no basis 4 in the text of Title VII’s opposition clause and actually contradicts the text of it”
• explaining that a plaintiff cannot establish pretext “by simply quar- reling with the wisdom of [a] reason” that might motivate a rea- sonable decisionmaker (citation omitted)
• finding that evidence of positive work performance reviews contributed to the creation of a genuine issue of material fact on pretext where the employer’s reason for termination was poor work performance
• explaining that a “plaintiff can- not rebut a reason by simply quarreling with the wisdom of that reason or substituting [his] business judgment for that of the em- ployer” (citation modified)
• finding that where a supervisor “did not mention anything at all to [an employee] about her being late on [an] assignment, it is implausible that he was so upset about it that it is the reason he fired her”
• finding plaintiff exhausted EEOC remedies for her retaliation claims despite the “EEOC charge largely focus[ing] on race discrimination”

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