Marin v. American Meat Packing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the causal element “requires more than a discharge in connection with filing a claim”
• “Evidence that those responsible for plaintiffs termination knew he intended to file a worker’s compensation claim is ‘essential’ to a retaliatory discharge action.”
• employer may fire employee for absenteeism, even if absenteeism is caused by an injury which is compensable by workers’ compensation
• employer may fire em‐ ployee for absenteeism, even if absenteeism is caused by an injury which is compensable by workers’ compensation
• where the plaintiff filed an action alleging retaliatory discharge for filing a worker’s compensation claim, court stated that the causality element requires more than a discharge in connection with the filing of the claim
• where the plaintiff filed an action alleging retaliatory discharge for filing a worker's compensation claim, court stated that the causality element requires more than a discharge in connection with the filing of the claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).