Gwendolyn Donald v. Sybra, Incorporated

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• concluding that plaintiff could not rely on temporal proximity when she was subject of an investigation before going on FMLA leave, and the investigation resulted in termination on her first day back from leave
• finding that “it is not in the interests of justice for [the court] to wade into an employer’s decisionmaking process”
• finding that temporal proximity combined with one comment containing “no subtext of animus” was insufficient to establish pretext
• noting that the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework applies to both interference and retaliation claims under the FMLA
• finding that a previous panel of this Court “effectively adopted the McDonnell Douglas tripartite test without saying as much” in the context of analyzing a claim for FMLA interference
• explaining that McDonnell Douglas applies to interference claims as well as retaliation claims

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