Doherty v. Bice

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How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a seven day gap between invoking a right to FMLA leave and plaintiffs termination was unduly suggestive
• holding that termination less than a week after the exercise of protected activity established causation through temporal proximity
• holding that whether the case could proceed under a mixed-motive instruction was not relevant because the case could proceed under “the more taxing McDonnell Douglas standard”
• holding that whether the case could proceed under a mixed-motive instruction was not relevant because the case could proceed under “the more taxing McDonnell Douglas standard”
• holding that the temporal proximity was unduly suggestive where the plaintiff was terminated seven days after she engaged in protected activity
• holding that temporal proximity was unduly suggestive where the plaintiff was terminated seven days after she engaged in protected activity

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