Court Opinion

ID: 9479351
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:15:22.586588+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:58.314548
License: Public Domain

WOLLMAN, Judge,
concurring.
In view of our holding that the district court correctly found that Walker was discharged for budgetary reasons unrelated to her sex, it is not necessary for us to decide whether the district court erred in concluding that Walker had failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination. I am not persuaded that the district court erred in this regard. I would reserve until a later day the question whether a plaintiff’s replacement by a person outside the protected group is an essential element of a prima facie case in a Title VII suit.
I concur fully in the remainder of the majority opinion.