El Sayed v. Hilton Hotels Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that one month between complaint and discharge “without more . . . is insufficient to satisfy appellant’s burden to bring forward some evidence of pretext”
• stating that “temporal proximity is insufficient to satisfy [a plaintiff’ s] burden to bring forward some evidence of pretext”
• noting that temporal proximity, without more, is “insufficient to satisfy appellant's burden to bring forward some evidence of pretext”
• noting that at the motion-to-dismiss stage, “[t]he temporal proximity of events may give rise to an inference of retaliation for the purposes of establishing a prima facie case of retaliation”
• affirming summary judgment for employer where employee “produced no evidence other than temporal proximity in support of his charge that the proffered reason for his discharge was pretextual”
• affirming the dismissal of the plaintiff's discrimination claim where “[the plaintiff] produced no evidence other than temporal proximity in support of his charge that the proffered reason for his discharge was pretextual’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).