Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Texas Instruments Inc.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) appeals the district court’s summary judgment to Texas Instruments, Inc. (“TI”) on the merits of the EEOC’s claims that six manufacturing supervisors were discharged as part of a company reduction in force because of their age. EEOC asserts that a combination of favorable employee performance reviews and a special company RIF policy, three age-related comments and workforce statistics created an inference that TI’s legitimate, nondiserimina-tory reasons for the employment decisions were pretextual for age…