Legal Opinion
Samuel Mesnick v. General Electric Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 16, 1991No. 91-1451PublishedCited by 1,959 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal calls upon us, in the course of determining whether an employer transgressed the law in its dealings with a former employee, to map the much traveled but little understood intersection between Rule 56 of the Civil Rules and the burden-shifting framework for discrimination cases first crafted by the Court in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 93 S.Ct. 1817, 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973). For the reasons that follow, we affirm the entry of summary judgment in the employer’s favor.
I. BACKGROUND
Recognizing the dictates of Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c), we scan the…
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