Eastman Kodak Co. v. Thomas

How later courts describe this case

• holding failure to admonish defendant on his statutory duty to register as sex offender did not invalidate guilty plea
• “Although it uses the label ‘plus,’ the First Circuit’s ‘pretext plus’ standard does not necessarily require the introduction of additional evidence beyond that required to show pretext.”
• the stereotypic assumption that "women are not aggressive" along with other “more subtle cognitive phenomena” may infect decision-making
• at the third stage of the McDonnell Douglas framework "the ultimate burden is on the plaintiff to persuade the trier of fact that she has been treated differently because of [a protected characteristic]”