M.D. ANDERSON HOSP. & TUMOR INST. v. WILLRICH

No. 99-1037.

28 S.W.3d 22 (2000)

M.D. ANDERSON HOSPITAL AND TUMOR INSTITUTE, The University of Texas System Cancer Center, Petitioner, v. Harold Gene WILLRICH, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

August 24, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heather Leigh Horton, Richard Charles Geisler, John Cornyn, Atty. Gen., Andy Taylor, Linda Eads. Toni Hunter, Christine Guerra Edwards, Austin., for petitioner.

Gordon Cooper, II, Cooper & Cooper, Houston, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

The issue we consider here is whether a terminated employee, alleging discrimination, can rely on the employer's summary judgment evidence to contend on appeal that a fact issue exists that the employer's reason for terminating the employee was pretextual. We conclude that the employee can do so, but that here the employee failed to raise a fact issue. Accordingly, we reverse the court of appeals' judgment and render judgment that the employee take nothing...

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