Mercer v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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• sufficient causal connection existed despite five month gap between reporting and termination, where in between plaintiff was overlooked for assignments and given unfavorable reviews
• “Generally, where a plaintiff relies solely on temporal proximity to establish causation, the amount of time between the employer’s knowledge of protected activity and an adverse employment action must be ‘very close.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).