United States Seventh Circuit

In a 53-year-old pharmacist's suit against Walgreens under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where: 1) because the record reveals that the district pharmacy manager did not rely solely on the store pharmacy manager's allegations, plaintiff cannot make out her cat's paw theory (an unbiased decisionmaker who is being used as a tool by a biased employee); and 2) substantial and undisputed evidence in the record supports Walgreens' assertion that it fired plaintiff not because of her age but because she violated company policy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/08/2010
• Decided 08/11/2010
• Published 08/11/2010

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Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

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