of conduct or statements by persons involved in the decision-making process, which indicate a discriminatory attitude was more likely than not a motivating factor in the employer’s decision.” Kratzer, 398 F.3d at 1045-46. Manning argues ARIC’s August 29 letter is direct evidence that ARIC terminated Manning’s employment because of her application for STD benefits. Manning argues that ARIC presented her a “Hobson’s choice”: Manning could either present objective medical evidence supporting her STD benefits claim or obtain a medical certification from her doctor relinquishing her STD benefits claim. Manning argues that other circuits have considered such a Hobson’s choice as direct evidence supporting a Section 510 claim. See Lindemann v. Mobil Oil Corp., 141 F.3d 290, 298 (7th Cir.1998) (<HOLDING>) was direct evidence supporting a Section 510
holding that an assistant professor hired for a fixed term of one academic year had no property interest in his job because the terms of his employment allowed that his contract not be renewed holding that a company policy which forced an employee to choose between losing his job for the exercise of his rights under erisaprotected benefits or keeping his job and forcing him to give up his benefits would be essentially unfair or a quintessential hobsons choice  holding injured employee who asked his employer for medical assistance and employer refused and employee then went to physician of his own choice employee could recover medical benefits holding that municipality could not be liable on failuretosupervise theory where police officer had history of insubordination at prior policing job due to absence of any evidence showing that the officer was incompetently performing his job on such a consistent basis that keeping him on duty represented a deliberate indifference to the constitutional rights of its citizens holding that removal of job responsibility did not constitute an adverse employment action because there was no change in the plaintiffs job position grade pay or benefits