Legal Opinion
Loretta Wilson v. B/E Aerospace, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 30, 2004No. 03-14909PublishedCited by 536 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
The key issue in this appeal is whether an admission by the decisionmaker that a female employee was “the obvious choice” and “most qualified” for a pending promotion creates a genuine issue of material fact of sex discrimination after the promotion is given to a male employee on the basis that he was allegedly the most qualified. Because this admission could lead a reasonable factfinder to disbelieve the employer’s proffered nondiscriminatory reason for not promoting the employee and infer discrimination, we reverse the summary judgment entered against the employee on…
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