M.D. Anderson Hospital & Tumor Institute v. Willrich

The issue we consider here is whether a terminated employee, alleging discrimination, can rely on the employer’s summary judgment evidence to contend on appeal that a fact issue exists that the employer’s reason for terminating the employee wTas pretextual. We conclude that the employee can do so, but that here the employee failed to raise a fact issue. Accordingly, we reverse the court of appeals’ judgment and render judgment that the employee take nothing.

Harold Willrich was a utilities station operator for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDA) from June 1981 until…