Henderson's administrator v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a gap of three to six months between protected activity and an adverse employment action was “insufficient, standing alone, to establish a causal connection” (collecting cases)
• finding that temporal proximity of “somewhere between three and six months [] is insufficient, standing alone, to establish a causal connection” and collecting cases
• noting that “a victim of discrimination . . . is usually constrained to rely on circumstantial evidence,” such as the “sequence of events leading to the plaintiff’s discharge” (citation omitted)
• granting motion to dismiss retaliation claims because temporal gap of six months was “insufficient, standing alone, to establish a causal connection”
• dismissing the plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim but declining to dismiss his discriminatory termination claim based on substantially identical allegations
• collecting cases for the proposition that a gap of six months or more undermines causation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).