Leonard Nino, Jr. v. State

How courts have described this case

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• “Viewing that evidence in the light most favorable to BNSF, a reasonable jury could find that Rookaird’s refusal to stop the air-brake test did not contribute to BNSF’s decision to terminate him.”
• noting that the good-faith requirement “applies throughout subsection (a)”
• noting, in the context of subsection (a)(2), that the jury made the good-faith determination
• “close temporal proximity” 24 between safety test and firing supported inference firing motivated by safety test
• “A ‘contributing factor’ includes any factor, which alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of the decision.” (citations and some internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Where 19 the moving party will have the burden of proof at trial, the movant must affirmatively 20 demonstrate that no reasonable trier of fact could find other than for the moving party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).