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· 11/30/2010

Coppinger-Martin v. Solis

Citations

  • 627 F.3d 745
  • 31 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 801
  • 2010 CCH OSHD 33,101
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 24433
  • 93 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 44,046
  • 2010 WL 4925414

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that the statute of limitations began to run when the complainant learned of her actual injury, i.e., the decision to terminate her employment
  • noting that “contributing factor” is a more lenient standard, but explaining that “the contributing factor that an employee must prove is intentional retaliation prompted by the employee engaging in a protected activity”
  • noting that “contributing factor” is a more lenient standard, but explaining that “the contributing factor that an employee must prove is intentional retaliation prompted by the employee engaging in a protected activity”
  • interpreting the similarly structured whistleblower protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • a 4 claim accrues when the plaintiff “learns of the ‘actual injury’ . . . and not when the plaintiff 5 suspects a ‘legal wrong’”
  • SOX claim accrued when complainant “learned of the 8 actual injury, i.e., that [complainant’s employer] had decided to terminate her employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Thomas, Smith, Collins

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