Supreme Court of Texas

In an age-discrimination suit, jury verdict for plaintiff is reversed where: 1) the statements of a store manager were not evidence that age was a motivating factor in defendant's termination of plaintiff; and 2) defendant claimed, as a non-discriminatory reason for terminating plaintiff, that plaintiff had violated its sexual harassment policy, and plaintiff presented no evidence under which a reasonable jury could find that defendant treated him less favorably than any other employee who had violated that policy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2008
• Published 12/05/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roger W. Hughes, Adams & Graham, L.L.P., Harlingen, TX, Tracy Kern, Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P., New Orleans LA, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Miguel Salinas, Law Office of Miguel Salinas, Brownsville, Ricardo J. Navarro, Alan Troy Ozuna, Denton, Navarro, Rocha & Bernal, P.C., Harlingen, TX, for Respondent.