Edith E. McNAIRN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• recognizing that an employee engaged in protected activity by bringing an employment discrimination lawsuit
• stating that a failure to promote claim requires that the plaintiff applied for the position, was qualified, and was rejected “under circumstances giving rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination”
• finding that appellant engaged in protected activity by bringing an unlawful employment discrimination lawsuit
• stating, in reference to the causal connection element of a retaliation case, that “it can be inferred that the termination was triggered by the lawsuit”
• declining to apply the prima facie elements set forth in Wright v. Nat’l Archives & Records Serv., 609 F.2d 702, 714 (4th Cir. 1979
• declining to apply the prima facie elements set forth in Wright v. Nat’l Archives & Records Serv., 609 F.2d 702, 714 (4th Cir. 1979

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