Martin v. Ramos

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “temporal proximity of four months is not close enough” to demonstrate “a causal connection between the eployment action and the protected conduct
• holding in a summary judgment that “temporal proximity of four months is not close enough, without additional supporting summary-judgement evidence.”
• finding that in failing to provide evidence of his own good, job performance, plaintiff failéd to create genuine issue of material fact on whether poor performance reason given by employer was mere pretext for discrimination
• affirming summary judgment dismissal of race discrimination claims where the defendant cited the plaintiff’s poor performance as the reason for not promoting him and the plaintiff provided no evidence to rebut this
• “A plaintiff relying on pretext must produce evidence rebutting all of a defendant’s proffered nondiscriminatory reasons.” (quotations omitted)
• in failing to provide evidence of his own good job performance, plaintiff failed to –25– create genuine issue of material fact on whether poor performance reason given by employer was mere pretext for discrimination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).