An age discrimination suit brought by a former employee of clothing retailer Anthropologie was improperly dismissed on summary judgment by the district court, which failed to apply both the proper legal standard and failing to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled.

Judge Griesa

Former U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa of the Southern District of New York misapplied prior precedent in the case brought by Blair Davis-Garett against her former employer in 2015, rather than the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, following the high court’s 2006 decision in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway v. White, according to the panel.