Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Bennett's Administrator

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• holding that the plaintiff’s retaliatory termination claim with a one-year gap was implausible where the plaintiff “provide[d] no evidence of retaliation other than timing”
• dismissing § 1981 claims where the allegations did not support “an inference, or even suggestion, that any employment decision made by [the plaintiff’s] supervisor was based on racial animus”
• granting motion to dismiss retaliation claim where one-year gap existed between the plaintiff's protected activity and the alleged retaliation, and the plaintiff did not explain the long delay between the two
• dismissing the plaintiff’s Title VII discrimination claim against the union defendant because he “failed to plead facts showing that [the union] denied his union applications or changed his classification on the basis of his race”
• dismissing Title VII claim against agent of employer for this reason
• retaliation claim dismissed where there was no evidence that defendants even knew of plaintiff's prior complaint

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