Melody J. Culver v. Gorman & Company

How courts have described this case

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• finding that plaintiff established prima facie case of retaliation under the direct method and proceeding to analyze whether, in light of employer's proffered non-retalialory explanation, plaintiff had created triable issue of pretext
• noting that “the issue before us is not whether an employer’s evaluation of the employee was correct but whether it was honestly believed”
• noting that the timing of the plaintiff’s termination, coupled with her recent positive performance evaluation, contributed to an inference of causa- tion
• noting that timing “will rarely be sufficient in and of itself to create a triable issue”
• noting that “the issue before us is not whether an employer’s evaluation of the em- ployee was correct but whether it was honestly believed”
• determining that an employer’s explanation can be “foolish or trivial or even baseless,” so long as it “honestly believed” its proffered reasons for the adverse employment action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).