Feist v. Louisiana, Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[w]hile a four-month gap may be sufficient evidence of causation, a five-month gap is too long absent other evidence”
• holding that “[w]hile a four-month gap may be sufficient evidence of causation, a five-month gap is too long absent other evidence.”
• holding that “[t]he language of the ADA, and all available interpretive authority” indicate that “reasonable accommodations are not restricted to modifications that enable performance of essential job functions.”
• holding that it is plaintiff’s burden on summary judgment to create “a conflict in substantial evidence on the question of whether the employer would not have taken the action ‘but for’ the protected activity
• holding that the plaintiff did not have to show “a nexus” between her requested accommodation — a free, on-site park- ing space — and the essential functions of her job as an assistant attorney gen- eral
• explaining that to avoid summary judgment in a retaliation case under the ADA, a plaintiff must raise a factual conflict regarding whether retaliation was the “but-for” cause of the employer’s action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).