Armstrong v. BNSF Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting circumstantial evidence, substantiating the sequence of events approach, whereby a plaintiff seeks to show the complaint of injury initiated the events culminating in an adverse employment action, may create fact disputes as to causation
• “Plaintiff’s task at this initial [summary judgment] stage is not onerous, indeed, it is less demanding than the McDonnell Douglas standard employed in other employment actions.”
• “A contributing factor is something less than a substantial or motivating one; instead, the term means any factor which, alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of the decision.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).