Court Opinion

ID: 9439144
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 06:23:21.953018+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:26:11.385786
License: Public Domain

KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
While I concur in the result, I write separately to point out that the first sentence of paragraph 6 of Hall’s affidavit (as Hall’s lawyer — who acknowledged he drafted the affidavit — conceded at oral argument), which avers that Sanford “informed [Hall] that the true reason for [Hall’s] termination was [Hall’s] age, not the other reasons raised earlier,” is Hall’s lawyer’s gloss on Sanford’s actual words quoted in the next two sentences of paragraph 6 — that he was “too old,” that she wanted “younger,” safer drivers and that he “had to go.” Hall Aff. ¶ 6, reprinted in App. 24. Hall, then, does not aver that Sanford in fact said “the true reason for [his] termination was [his] age,” id., and there is no other evidence of discrimination in the record. Accordingly, Hall failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination and I find it unnecessary to go further.