MESNICK v. GENERAL ELEC. CO.

No. 91-1451.

950 F.2d 816 (1991)

Samuel MESNICK, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott A. Lathrop with whom Scott A. Lathrop, P.C., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

David H. Erichsen with whom Susan M. Curtin and Hale and Dorr, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and CYR, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal calls upon us, in the course of determining whether an employer transgressed the law in its dealings with a former employee, to map the much traveled but little understood intersection between Rule 56 of the Civil Rules and the burden-shifting framework for discrimination cases first crafted by the Court in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 93 S.Ct. 1817, 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973)....

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