Fink v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[m]ilitary status is a motivating factor if the defendant relied on,-took into .account, considered, or conditioned its ■ decision on that consideration” (internal quotation, marks omitted)
• noting that “[s]ome courts have applied the standard Title VII McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework to the USERRA context,” though “a majority” of courts have applied the burden-shifting framework discussed in NLRB v. Transportation Management Corp.
• noting there was “a dearth of caselaw” in any Circuit regarding the interpretation of § 4323(d)
• reducing award to $125,000 where the jury had awarded the plaintiff $300,000 in damages for emotional distress after the plaintiff and his wife testified about the plaintiff's \image\ but the plaintiff did not seek medical help and presented no medical evidence
• “[A]n award of prejudgment interest on [plaintiffs] back pay award [for USERRA violations] is entirely appropriate”
• “The difference is solely that the McDonnell Douglas framework has three steps .shifting the burden back to the plaintiff to show that the defendant’s alleged non-discriminatory reason is a pretext for -discrimination.!’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).