Legal Opinion
Patricia M. Pivirotto v. Innovative Systems, Inc
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 7, 1999No. 98-3609PublishedCited by 372 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Chief Judge.
This appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for the defendant-employer in a Title VII gender-discrimination case brought by a discharged female employee calls upon us to decide the correctness of an instruction to the jury that it was required to return a verdict in favor of the defendant if it did not find that the plaintiff had been replaced by a male. We join seven other circuits in holding that a plaintiff claiming discriminatory firing need not prove, to make out a prima facie case, that she was replaced by someone outside the relevant…
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