The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a former Creighton University internal medicine resident’s bid to revive her lawsuit alleging she was dropped because she was in her late 50s and regarded as having dementia.
Mary Canning said the justices needed to clear up a conflation by some lower courts of the standards for determining when pretrial summary judgment is appropriate in discrimination cases and when an employer should be granted a win during the course of trial.
Summary judgment without a trial is inappropriate under Supreme Court precedent unless there are no disputed facts to be resolved by ...
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