Willard L. Hemsworth, II v. quotesmith.com, Inc.

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• holding that isolated comments and “stray remarks,” without more, are insufficient to establish discriminatory intent
• concluding that president’s comment that the employee who had suffered a stroke looked tired and old was not sufficient evidence of discrimination because comment was made more than a year before employee’s termination
• explaining that a comment made more than a year before the employee’s termination is too far removed to constitute evidence of discriminatory animus
• concluding that president’s comment that the employee who had suffered a stroke looked tired and old was not sufficient evidence of discrim- ination because comment was made more than a year before employee’s termination
• explaining that the indirect method “involves a subset of circumstantial evidence (including the disparate treatment of similarly situated employees) that conforms to the prescription of [McDonnell Douglas]”
• explaining that a comment made more than a year before the employee’s termina- tion is too far removed to constitute evidence of discriminatory animus

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