Legal Opinion
Deboom v. Raining Rose, Inc.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided August 28, 2009No. 06-1063PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STREIT, Justice.
Elizabeth DeBoom was fired from her job at Raining Rose, Inc. shortly after returning from maternity leave. She filed suit against the company alleging she was impermissibly fired because of her sex and pregnancy. After a defense verdict, De-Boom appealed alleging several deficiencies in the jury instructions. We hold the district court should have instructed the jury it could infer discrimination if it believed Raining Rose’s proffered reasons for terminating DeBoom were a “pretext.” Further, DeBoom was prejudiced by an erroneous definition of “determining factor” in the jury…
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