Barbara Franklin McKenna v. Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense

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• holding that probationary employee was not similarly situated to “permanent employees of the agency”
• concluding that two “permanent employees” were “not similarly situated” to a plaintiff probationary employee
• causal connection established by knowledge of employee’s protected activity closely followed by adverse personnel action
• plaintiff established pri-ma facie retaliation case because her dis charge occurred “so closely” (22 days) after she complained about sexism
• “The McDonnell Douglas framework is also applicable to claims of [a] retaliatory [adverse action].”
• plaintiff’s superiors need not have been aware of her EEO complaint at time of her dismissal to show causal connection; it suffices that they knew of investigation “related to sexist treatment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).