Van Voorhis v. HILLSBOROUGH CTY. BD OF CTY. COM'RS

How courts have described this case

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• holding that decision maker’s statements that he “didn’t want to hire any old pilots” was direct evidence of age discrimination
• holding that a statement from a county official who “didn’t want to hire any old pilots” was direct evidence of discrimination
• explaining that direct evidence consists of “[o]nly the most blatant remarks, whose intent could be nothing other than to discriminate on the basis of age” (quotation marks omitted)
• requiring proof of adverse employment action for a prima facie discrimination claim using direct evidence
• “An adverse employment action is an ultimate employment decision, such as discharge or failure to hire . . . .”
• “Even where direct evidence of discrimination exists, [a plaintiff] must present evidence of an adverse employment action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).