Gerald Marx v. Schnuck Markets, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding genuine issue of material fact existed con-ceming FLSA retaliation claim where, following protected activity, employer engaged in a series of escalating, retaliatory acts that created conditions for employee’s termination
• stating that a lack of temporal proximity can be overcome “where the pattern of retaliatory conduct begins soon after the [protected activity] and only culminates later in actual discharge”
• finding allegations of a write up and demotion before eventual termination to constitute a pattern of retaliatory conduct that precluded summary judgment in favor of an employer
• finding pretext based on pattern of pernicious conduct that “culminate[d] later in actual discharge”
• plaintiff may assert multiple civil rights claims and prove a prima facie case as to each
• applying “motivating factor” test to the plaintiff’s FLSA retaliation claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).