# Geiger v. Tower Automotive

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · September 4, 2009 · 579 F.3d 614

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9599501

## Case

- **Full name:** Raymond L. GEIGER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TOWER AUTOMOTIVE, Defendant-Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** September 4, 2009
- **Citations:** 579 F.3d 614; 92 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 43,674; 107 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 285; 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 19966; 2009 WL 2836538
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Rogers
- **Judges:** Kennedy, Gibbons, Rogers
- **Cited by:** 413 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that statements “unrelated to the decisional process itself [cannot] suffice to satisfy the plaintiffs burden ... of demonstrating animus” (alteration in original) (internal quotation marks omitted)
- finding that the McDonnell Douglas framework applies to ADEA claims based on circumstantial evidence even after Gross’s rejection of the burden-shifting framework for claims of direct evidence
- explaining that “Gross overrules our ADEA precedent to the extent that cases applied Title VII’s burden-shifting framework if the plaintiff produced direct evidence of age discrimination.”

## Opinion text

ROGERS, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the result, but would base affirmance on Geiger’s not having shown pretext, even assuming that Geiger had made out a prima facie case of age discrimination.

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