William F. TURNER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant

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• where employer wrongly believes employee violated company policy, employer does not discriminate in violation of Title VII if it acts on that belief
• prima facie case made out by the discharge of Turner, a black, for a timeclock infraction and the retention of a white employee after an identical violation
• the discharge of a black employee and the retention of a white employee under apparently similar circumstances
• the discharge of a black employee and the retention of a white employee under apparently similar circumstances
• “Title VII . . . do[es] not protect against unfair business decisions[,] only against decisions motivated by unlawful animus.”
• “Even if [the employer] wrongly believed that [the Title VII claimant] violated this policy, if [the employer] acted on this belief it was not guilty of racial discrimination.”

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