United States Sixth Circuit

Retaliation claims under the Rehabilitation Act, 29 USC 794 will fail where employee does not answer employer's nondiscriminatory reasons for termination by showing that a reasonable jury could find by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant's stated reasons are pretextual.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/01/2000
• Decided 03/30/2001
• Published 03/30/2001

Judges

• Before: KEITH, BOGGS, and COLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven C. Bennett (argued and briefed), Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, New York, NY, Elizabeth A. Grove, Cleveland, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth A. Zirm, Walter & Haverfield, Cleveland, OH, Peter J. Vodola (briefed), Thomas G. Rohback (argued and briefed), Leboeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, Hartford, CT, for Defendant-Appellee.