Walter ADREANI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FIRST COLONIAL BANKSHARES CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee

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• stating that “the relevant inquiry is whether age ‘tipped the balance,’ that is, whether age was a ‘but for’ cause of the decision to fire the plaintiff.”
• analyzing whether the reasons were sufficiently intertwined to permit application of the \so intertwined\ exception to the rule that the plaintiff must show pretext as to each separate reason
• finding that there was no genuine issue about the plaintiffs performance deficiencies, even though he was not given written performance evaluations, because warnings from supervisors “put him on notice that his performance was not satisfactory”
• analyzing whether the reasons were sufficiently intertwined to permit application of the “so intertwined” exception to the rule that the plaintiff must show pretext as to each separate reason
• analyzing whether the reasons were sufficiently intertwined to permit application of the \so intertwined\ exception to the rule that the plaintiff must show pretext as to each separate reason
• \The existence of a genuine issue of triable fact with respect to some of the reasons for discharge proffered by the employer is of no consequence as long as at least one reason is uncontested.\

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