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Last month, I explained how easy it is for an employee to plead a discrimination claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Yet, last night, I read an opinion in which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had to correct not one but two judges on the pleadings standards.
What happened?!?
An employee representing herself alleged that she applied for 80 internal positions in 2018 and interviewed for 25 of them. Still, her employer never selected her despite her 25 years of education experience, including 12 years of experience as an Instructional Coach and Department Chair. She alleged that,