Weidenfeld
Weidenfeld v. Correctional Medical Services of St. Louis
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM ***
After being discharged from her job as a nurse at the Washoe County Jail, Michaela Weidenfeld brought suit alleging discrimination on the basis of age, sex and national origin as well as a number of constitutional claims. The district court awarded summary judgment to all defendants-appellees. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , 1 and we affirm.
Because the parties are familiar with the factual background, we do not recite the details here. We review awards of summary judgment de novo. See Stout v. Potter, 276 F.3d 1118, 1121 (9th Cir.2002).
We evaluate discrimination claims arising under Title VII and the ADEA by employing a three-step, burden-shifting framework: (1) the plaintiff must make a prima facie case of discrimination; (2) if the plaintiff succeeds, the burden of production, but not persuasion, shifts to the defendant to offer a “legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason” for the action taken against the plaintiff; (3) if the defendant successfully shifts the burden back to the plaintiff, then the plaintiff must “prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the legitimate reasons offered by the defendant were not its true reasons, but were a…