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· 6/8/2006

Ann S. Mullin v. Edmond Gettinger, Burton Witthuhn, and Eric Stiffler

Citations

  • 450 F.3d 280
  • 24 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1002
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 14058
  • 88 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 42,546
  • 2006 WL 1549050

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a one-year gap was too attenuated to provide evidence that an employee’s speech was a motivating factor
  • holding that a one-year gap was too attenuated to provide evidence that an employee’s speech was a motivating factor
  • “[T]he fact that a plaintiffs protected speech may precede an adverse employment decision alone does not establish causation.”
  • the nearly two-year time gap between a letter and an adverse action is too attenuated to provide evidence that the letter motivated the adverse action
  • \[T]he fact that a plaintiff's protected speech may precede an adverse employment decision alone does not establish causation\
  • “[T]he fact that a plaintiff's protected speech may precede an adverse employment decision alone does not establish causation.”

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Judges: Posner, Ripple, Rovner

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