Court Opinion

ID: 9416106
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 19:27:37.549872+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:33.259807
License: Public Domain

EDMONDSON, Chief Judge,
concurring in the result:
I would not reach the qualified immunity issue because I think the record established no violation of the Constitution. Plaintiff can point to no comparator. The decisions set out in today’s court opinion to support a prima facie case are not being followed, but are being extended to the disciplinary-demotion situation. I also doubt that Plaintiff has presented suffi*1286cient evidence of pretext. If I believed this record did establish pretext, I would worry that qualified immunity could not apply: no mixed motive, just an unlawful discriminatory one.