Brown v. Alabama Department of Transportation

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• holding that in the absence of other evidence establishing causation, “[e]ven a three-month interval between the protected expression and the employment action—the briefest interval we face here—is too long.”
• holding that District Court had authority to order complainant transferred to comparable position nearest her resi- dence but remanding case for court to state with greater clarity and specificity how injunction was to be car- ried out
• noting that pretext becomes a relevant issue only after the plaintiff has established a prima facie case
• stating that the burden-shifting analysis applies to cases of retaliation relying on circumstantial evidence in the context of a Title VII case
• explaining that the Seventh Amendment requires that courts defer to jury findings when they sit in equity
• stating that to make out a prima facie case of retaliation, a plaintiff must show that: (1) she engaged in a statutorily protected activity; (2) she suffered a materially adverse action; and (3

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