United States Second Circuit

Evidence that supervisor ignored superior's request to consider all employees in supervisor's department for termination is sufficient to show pretext when supervisor considered only minority employees for termination, even if job duties of the employees differed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/28/2000
• Decided 12/12/2001
• Published 12/12/2001

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before McLAUGHLIN and POOLER, Circuit Judges, and DRONEY, District Judge .

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick H. Barth, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine B. Forrest, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, NY, for Appellee.