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· 8/26/2011

Martinez-Burgos v. Guayama Corp.

Citations

  • 656 F.3d 7
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 17836
  • 94 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 44,273
  • 113 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 253
  • 2011 WL 3769063

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  • finding that “documented instances of noncompliance with a raft of company policies and rules,” among other factors, satisfied the defendant’s burden of production in a pregnancy discrimination case
  • describing the “prima facie stage of the burden-shifting framework” as a “relatively low bar”
  • “[Leave to amend] is properly denied . . . if amendment 12 would be futile.”
  • “Our task is thus limited, to the extent possible, to applying state law as it currently exists, not creating new rules or significantly expanding existing ones.”

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Judges: Lynch, Lipez, Howard

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