Wakefield v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• holding that district court did not err in declining to give adverse inference instruction based on defendant's inability to locate personnel file apparently lost by defendant’s deceased in-house counsel
• holding that no unfavorable inference arises “where the failure to produce it is otherwise properly accounted for”
• concluding that CEO’s statement that the mid-40s age group was the company’s future was “relevant evidence of discrimination”
• finding that plaintiff's receipt of performance bonus raised issue of fact as to whether employer's performance-based explanation for discharging plaintiff was pretext
• finding that plaintiffs receipt of performance bonus raised issue of fact as to whether employer’s performance-based explanation for discharging plaintiff was pretext
• holding that, in age discrimination case, a CEO’s age-related statements in a company newsletter could be considered “as evidence of the corporate culture in which the employment decision to discharge [plaintiff] was made”

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