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Opinion
Filed
May 10, 2019
Case
Richard Figueroa v. Michael Pompeo
Case status
Decided

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Wilkins, Circuit Judge: A worker challenging employment discrimination often must demonstrate her employer's illegal intent. That is not easy. Employers ordinarily are not so daft as to create or keep direct evidence of discriminatory purpose. Decades ago, the Supreme Court devised a three-step process to help the employee make her case through circumstantial evid…

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