Ghirardelli v. McAvey Sales & Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• determining that the plaintiff established a prima facie case of unlawful retaliation by her employer based on a Title VII lawsuit that the plaintiff had filed against a different employer
• “Permitting employers to discriminate against an employee because of an employee’s past use of Title VII’s remedial mechanisms could significantly deter employees from engaging in such proceedings.”
• “speculation ... cannot serve to contradict the sworn testimony of the witnesses ... [and] is not enough to create a genuine issue of material fact”
• no genuine issue of material fact where a plaintiff “pits sworn testimony against speculation, conjecture and self-serving conclusions”

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