Girard v. Personnel Appeals Board of the Town of Charlestown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• permitting Monell claim for First Amendment retaliation to go forward where parties did not dispute the actor’s status as a final policymaker
• “Though there is ‘no set legal rule[,] ... we typically allow no more than a few days to elapse between the protected activity and the adverse action’ . . . to support an inference of retaliatory motive”
• five-month gap between protected activity and adverse action “far too distant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).