Arteaga v. Brink's, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that 10 employees “may not raise an old wound as a preemptive strike to escape appropriate discipline”
• concluding that an employee’s termination within a few days of filing a workers’ compensation claim established a causal link between the protected conduct and the termination for the purposes of his prima facie claim
• holding “[t]he employer may fire 5 an employee for. . . a reason based on erroneous facts. . . as long as its action is not for a 6 discriminatory reason.”
• noting that “smoking gun” evidence of discrimination is rarely found
• noting that “smoking gun” evidence of discrimination is rarely found
• finding the employee’s pain and numbness were subjective, and the employer was entitled to rely on the fact that the physician returned the employee to work without any restrictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).