Harrington v. Aggregate Industries-Northeast Region, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the McDonnell framework applies in retaliation claims under the False Claims Act
• holding that McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework applies to FCA retaliation claims
• suggesting that a plaintiff can satisfy the third element of a prima facie retaliation case by plausibly pleading temporal proximity where the retaliatory action occurred two months after the protected conduct
• holding that a district court should grant leave to amend even if no 1 request to amend the pleading was made and finding that the rule favoring liberality in amendments 2 to pleadings is particularly important for the pro se litigant
• explaining that “close temporal proximity between relevant events” can give rise to an inference of pretext
• suggesting that a plaintiff can satisfy the third element of a prima facie retaliation case by plausibly pleading temporal proximity where the retaliatory action occurred two months after the protected conduct

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