Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Louisburg Grain Co. v. City of Arkansas City
Louisburg Grain Co. v. City of Ark. City, 490 U.S. 1098 (1989)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1989-06-05
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- observing that a factual dispute is genuine only “if the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party.”
- affirming a summary judgment for the defendant-employer, stating that the plaintiff had not presented the court with a genuine issue of material fact as to whether “but for” his age he would not have been discharged
- “Statistics are often unreliable because company-wide data may mask discrimination on a smaller scale.”
Citator
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Sup. Ct. Kan. Certiorari denied.