Goos v. National Ass'n of Realtors

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee engaged in protected activity when she orally complained to her superiors that the termination of a non-white employee that she had been instructed to effectuate was “unethical” and seemingly “racially motivated”
• finding that just over five weeks between the protected action and the plaintiffs termination was short enough time lapse to infer a causal connection
• finding that just over five weeks between the protected action and the plaintiff’s termination was short enough time lapse to infer a causal connection
• “finding that just over five weeks between the protected action and the plaintiff’s termination was short enough time lapse to infer a causal connection”
• dismissing the defendant’s argument that the entire McDonnell Douglas burden shifting framework should not be employed “because the plaintiff ha[d] failed to make out a prima facie case of retaliatory discharge.”
• dismissing the defendant’s argument that the entire McDonnell Douglas burden shifting framework should not be employed “because the plaintiff ha[d] failed to make out a prima facie case of retaliatory discharge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).