Court Opinion

ID: 9490093
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:32:32.827958+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:53.605605
License: Public Domain

FAGG, BEAM, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Judges FAGG, BEAM, and HANSEN concur in Parts I, II, and III of the court’s opinion. We also concur in Part I.A. of the dissent because we feel this Part makes clear that in keeping with the traditional sufficiency of the evidence analysis, an employment discrimination plaintiff must present evidence sufficient to create a reasonable inference of discriminatory intent to avoid judgment as a matter of law.
Instead of joining Part IV of the court’s opinion, we join in Parts II.A. and II.B. of the dissenting opinion. We concur with the dissent’s view that neither Instruction 20 from this case nor the instruction found in Section 106.04 of Devitt, Blackmar & Wolff, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions, should be used by the district courts. Judges Fagg and Beam also join in Part II.C. of the dissenting opinion, and thus dissent from Part IV of the court’s opinion. Believing that when the instructions are read as a whole the internal inconsistency in Instruction 20 does not require reversal in this case, Judge Hansen concurs in the result reached in Part IV of the court’s opinion.