Wheeler v. Nichols

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “motives are often more covert than overt, making direct evidence of forbidden animus hard to come by”
• holding that “a plaintiff who is replaced by an older worker does not receive the inference of discrimination that the prima facie case 7 affords”
• holding that “a plaintiff who is replaced by an older worker does not receive the inference of discrimination that the prima facie case affords”
• holding that plea to jurisdiction may challenge plaintiff’s pleadings by asserting that alleged facts do not affirmatively demonstrate court’s jurisdiction
• recognizing that “motives are often more covert than overt, making direct evidence of forbidden animus hard to come by”
• recognizing that an inference of age discrimination “cannot be drawn from the replacement of one worker with another worker insignificantly younger”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).