First National Bank v. Cahil

How courts have described this case

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• reversing summary judgment: “A jury may infer pretext when an employer en- forces a policy in an objectively unreasonable way.”
• finding five-month gap was not strong evidence of suspicious timing but nevertheless that jury may consider this alongside other evidence
• “Under Babb and Gomez-Perez, then, we conclude that § 2000e- 16 prohibits retaliation when it ‘plays a part in a federal employment decision.””
• federal employee ADEA claims do not require showing but-for causation, but rather that “age played a part in an employment decision”
• “[t]o be clear, a finding of liability [as to the retaliation claim] would not necessarily entitle [the plaintiff] to reinstatement, lost wages, and compensatory damages” under Babb

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).