Legal Opinion
Lynn Noyes v. Kelly Services, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 29, 2007No. 04-17050PublishedCited by 174 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge.
In this employment discrimination case, we address the plaintiffs burden to raise a triable issue of fact as to pretext under the familiar McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting regime in the context of a less familiar claim of “reverse” religious discrimination. Lynn Noyes alleges that a supervisory employee at her former employer, Kelly Services, Inc. (“Kelly Services”), was a member of a small religious group, the Fellowship of Friends (“Fellowship”), and that he repeatedly favored and promoted other Fellowship members. Noyes claims that she was passed over for a…
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