Bowen v. El Paso Electric Co.

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

This appeal concerns the granting of summary judgment in an employment discrimination case. In four interrelated issues, 1 plaintiff Charlene Bowen urges that she presented evidence establishing her prima facie showing of discrimination, raised fact questions on whether the employer’s proffered legitimate reasons for dismissal were pretextual, and that she is therefore entitled to trial on the merits. Finding that the U.S. Supreme Court recently addressed this issue in Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, 2 and that under a Reeves analysis summary judgment was error,…