Andre Pope v. Esa Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where plaintiff “shared his observation that there were no blacks in the district-manager position” but “did not attribute the absence ...’ to racial discrimination,” he failed to engage in statutorily protected activity that could support a claim of retaliation
• noting that temporal proximity “without any other circumstantial evidence, fails to raise an issue of material fact regarding causation”
• stating that the fact that a decision-maker went to lunch with white managers does not mean that his decision not to promote a minority employee was pretextual
• applying the McDonnell Douglas framework when the district court dismissed the plaintiff’s Minnesota Whistleblower claim on summary judgment
• affirming grant of summary judgment to employer after plaintiff failed to show that the employer had not relied in good faith on the allegations against the plaintiff
• providing that the employer’s burden is “not onerous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).