Schechner, et al v. KPIX-TV, et al., No. 11-15294 (9th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs, television news reporters for KPIX-TV, brought suit alleging that KPIX discriminated against them on the basis of age and gender, in violation of California law, when they were laid off. The district court granted KPIX's motion for summary judgment, dismissing all of plaintiffs' claims. The court held that, although plaintiffs established a prima facie case of discrimination, they did not present sufficient evidence of pretext to survive summary judgment. The court wrote to clarify that a plaintiff could make a prima facie case of disparate-treatment age discrimination using statistical evidence, even where that evidence did not account for defendant's legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for the discharge.
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