Clark County School District v. Breeden

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that twenty months was too long and citing cases holding that three or four months was too long
• noting that a three or four month period between the protected activity and an adverse action could not show a causal connection
• noting that a three- or four-month lapse between a protected activity and an adverse action is insufficient to show a causal connection and that a 20-month period suggests “no causality at all”
• dismissing retaliation claim when “[n]o reasonable person could have believed that the incident [complained of] violated Title VIPs standard”
• “[Tjhere is no indication that [the employer] even- knew about the [protected activity] when [an adverse action took place]”
• temporal proximity alone, when “very close,” can in some instances establish a prima facie case of retaliation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).