Jones v. Board of Regents of the University System

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• “As [appellant] does not argue these claims in his appellate brief, they are deemed abandoned.”
• “As [appellant] does not argue these claims in his appellate brief, they are deemed abandoned.”
• trial court erred in granting summary judgment to defendant on whistleblower claim where plaintiff presented circumstantial evidence that he was terminated in retaliation for making protected disclosure
• where plaintiff’s investigation ended in late January and he was dismissed on March 12, the temporal relationship of approximately two months constituted circumstantial evidence that plaintiff was dismissed in reprisal for his investigation
• because the only direct evidence of record was that plaintiff was terminated for a legitimate reason, “[i]n order to avoid summary judgment, [he had to] show that the 6 record provide[d] circumstantial evidence that his termination was a matter of reprisal.”
• deeming issue not argued on appeal abandoned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).