Dudley v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “[i]t is hard to argue that the employer punished plaintiff because of plaintiff’s protected activity, if the employer was completely unaware of plaintiff’s protected activity” (em- phasis omitted)
• observing that “[i]t is hard to argue that the employer punished plaintiff because of plaintiff’s protected ac- tivity, if the employer was completely unaware of plaintiff’s protected activity” (emphasis omit- ted)
• noting that a six-month interval is “the outer edge of acceptable temporal proximity”
• rejecting a hostile work environment claim where the employee similarly alleged that his supervisor talked to him “in a harsh, critical, and condescending tone,” and “singl[ed him] out” for criticism
• “When relying on a comparator to overcome the employer’s proffered legitimate explanation, there must be a very close relationship between the compared employees.”
• “It is hard to argue that the employer punished plaintiff because of plaintiff’s protected activity, if the employer was completely unaware of plaintiff’s protected activity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).