Dollar General Partners v. Upchurch

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing grant of directed verdict on a retaliation claim where facts suggested that gathering of evidence against employee was motivated by a need to find a legally permissible reason to terminate
• “Upchurch [the employee], however, does not request that the court order reinstatement; we, therefore, give that remedy no further consideration.”
• five months, while too long to establish a causal connection by itself, when viewed in context may still establish a causal connection
• “The purpose of front pay is limited to compensating the employee for wages lost as a result of the wrongful termination.”
• “The purpose of front pay is limited to compensating the employee for wages lost as a result of the wrongful termination.”
• when lacking close temporal proximity, “[t]he logical approach is for the court to view the time between the two events in the context of the entire circumstances”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).