Araujo v. New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that neither direct evidence nor evidence of motive is required to prove the contributing factor element
• holding that neither direct evidence nor evidence of motive is required to prove the contributing factor element
• finding temporal proximity sufficient to establish prima facie contributory causation despite its “entirely circumstantial” nature
• contrasting the two standards and finding that the clear and convincing evidence standard “is much more protective of plaintiff–employees than the McDonnell Douglas framework”
• holding employee “is not required to provide evidence of motive”
• finding an employee need not prove retaliatory motive in their prima facie case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).