Allen v. Iranon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an “eleven-month gap in time is within the range that has been found to support an inference [of] retaliatory [motive]”
• holding an 11-month gap between the protected speech and denial of a government benefit “is within the range that has been found to support an inference than an employment decision was retaliatory.”
• explaining that the clear error standard is significantly deferential, and that this court would “accept the lower court’s findings of fact” unless this court is left with a “definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed”
• noting Graning conflicts with cases from the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits
• “[A]n eleven- 9 month gap in time is within the range that has been found to support an inference that an 10 employment decision was retaliatory.”
• “Courts determining whether a plaintiff has met his burden . . . often look to evidence that the employer’s proffered reasons for the challenged decision were pretextual.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).