Whether the falsified employment performance statements are pretexts or legitimate reasons for the employment decisions

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Whether the falsified employment performance statements are pretexts or legitimate reasons for the employment decisions. 2. Whether exceptionally placing an employee into discipline, not following employer's own discipline policy, is an equal and fair employment in a claim for discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 3. Whether the negative employment decision to start a discipline pathing to termination, based on the performance statements only 10 days after employee's verbal complaints and opposition to unequal employment treatments, is an adverse employment action in a claim for retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 4. Whether the employment termination, again based on the falsified performance statement, after employee's multiple complaints for the escalated unfair/unequal treatments due to discrimination and retaliation, is an adverse employment action in a claim for retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.