Legal Opinion
Barbara Kragor v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 20, 2012No. 11-16052PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
It may be that a “[c]ontradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.” Blaise Pascal, Pascal’s Pensées 104 (E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1958) (1670). But under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., a contradiction of the employer’s proffered reason for the termination of an employee is sometimes enough, when combined with other evidence, to allow a jury to find that the firing was the result of unlawful discrimination. See generally Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Prods., Inc., 530 U.S. 133, 148, 120 S.Ct. 2097,…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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