Ted JOSEY, Appellant, v. JOHN R. HOLLINGSWORTH CORPORATION, Appellee

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the proper inquiry is whether the plaintiff has proffered sufficient evidence of “inconsistencies and implausibilities in the employer’s proffered reasons”
• holding that the proper inquiry is whether the plaintiff has proffered sufficient evidence of \inconsistencies and implausibilities in the employer's proffered reasons\
• holding that the origin of a company policy should be resolved by a factfinder
• finding that the district court improperly failed to “explore the decision-making structure of the com pany” before holding that harassment by co-workers was unrelated to the termination decision
• stating that timing of an employee’s dismissal is relevant to the pretext inquiry
• acknowledging that there is seldom direct \smoking gun\ evidence of discrimination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).