Janet M. Strate v. Midwest Bankcentre, Inc.

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• holding that a woman on maternity leave caring for her disabled new born qualifies under the association provision
• recognizing protection under the ADA for individuals who associate with a qualified individual
• finding pretext based in part on the terminated employee’s “eleven-year employment history with the Bank, during which she was promoted several times and received numerous salary increases”
• noting, in the summary judgment context, that a plaintiff’s “apparently unblemished employment history with the Bank, spanning more than a decade of work, casts genuine doubt upon the Bank’s stated reason for terminating her”
• utilizing the concept of temporal proximity in the context of retaliation
• “[E]vidence of a strong employment history will not alone create a genuine issue of fact regarding pretext and discrimination.”

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